Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen confirmed the EU will allocate about 3 billion euros in military support to Ukraine next week, writing on Telegram after their call, per Espreso. Zelenskyy said he thanked her for a recent 1.24 billion euro defense tranche that he said has already arrived in Ukraine. He also said Russia struck a power plant in Kyiv with a Shahed drone just before the call, blacking out districts of the capital, and later hit energy facilities in the Kharkiv region, all after Donald Trump’s claimed energy ceasefire. The teams agreed to discuss next steps in detail, and Ukraine is preparing to open EU accession clusters with the rest to follow by year-end.
Zelenskyy says EU pledged 3 billion euros in arms aid next week
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ursula von der Leyen confirmed the EU will allocate about 3 billion euros in military support to Ukraine next week, on top of a 1.24 billion euro defense tranche Kyiv says it already received.
Why it matters: The pledge, if confirmed by Brussels, would give Kyiv a European financing backstop just as Washington threatens to cut the US arms-procurement pipeline over Ukraine's refinery strikes.
Data as of Sunday, October 11, 2026; via Espreso (in Ukrainian), article opened and read in full. The 3 billion euro figure is Zelenskyy's account of his call with von der Leyen and is not yet confirmed by the European Commission: single-sourced.
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- Zelensky: EU to provide Ukraine 3 billion euros in military aid next week (in Ukrainian) · Espreso · 2026-10-11