The Ukraine Facility
The Ukraine Facility provides Ukraine with financial support to bolster the country's financial stability, recovery and modernisation, keep its public administration running and support its reform efforts.
What is the Ukraine Facility?
The Ukraine Facility is an instrument that allows the EU to provide Ukraine with over €50 billion in stable and predictable financial support over the 2024-2027 period.
The facility aims to support:
- macro-financial stability, recovery and modernisation
- reforms
- uninterrupted public services
- civil society
- the mobilisation of investments in the private sector
Setting up the Ukraine Facility in February 2024 once again demonstrated the EU's commitment to supporting Ukraine in the face of Russia’s war of aggression and on its path towards EU membership.
The facility is designed as a coherent and flexible instrument adapted to the unprecedented challenges of supporting a country at war. It aims to ensure the predictability, transparency and accountability of the funds, and is organised around three pillars.
Pillar 1: financial support for Ukraine
Providing support for the Ukraine plan (drawn up by the Ukrainian government together with the European Commission) through grants and loans.
Pillar 2: Ukraine investment framework
Attracting and mobilising public and private investments in Ukraine's recovery and reconstruction (in the form of budgetary guarantees, financial instruments or blending operations).
Pillar 3: assistance programmes to Ukraine
Providing technical assistance for the Ukrainian government (on EU laws and structural reforms) and support for civil society.
The Ukraine Facility allows EU member states, third countries and international organisations to contribute on a voluntary basis.
What is the facility's total budget?
The initial budget of the facility for the period from 2024 to 2027 was €50 billion. EU leaders agreed on this amount in the context of the mid-term revision of the current EU long-term budget 2021-2027 (multiannual financial framework, or MFF), on 1 February 2024.
The total budget of €50 billion is being provided through both loans (approximately €33 billion) and grants (approximately €17 billion).
On 30 July 2026, the Council decided to amend the 'Ukraine plan' to reflect an additional €8.3 billion in financing for 2026, provided through the Ukraine support loan.
Grants are covered through the Ukraine reserve, a special instrument proposed in the context of the MFF revision. Loans are guaranteed through the EU own resources headroom, similar to the current financing under the macro-financial assistance ‘plus' (MFA+) programme.
The headroom is the difference between the maximum amount of resources that the Commission can ask member states to contribute in a given year and the funds that the Commission actually needs to cover the expenses set out in the budget.
What support has the EU provided so far?
The Council has already approved eight regular payments under the Ukraine Facility and €43.3 billion have been mobilised in total.
What are the conditions for the support?
Of the €50 billion budget, over €40 billion are earmarked for reforms and investments set out in the 'Ukraine plan' – Ukraine's roadmap for recovery and EU accession – with quarterly disbursements tied to Ukraine meeting the plan's targets.
The government of Ukraine presented the ‘Ukraine plan' in March 2024. The plan was a precondition for receiving funding and sets out:
- Ukraine's vision for the country's recovery, reconstruction and modernisation
- the reforms planned as part of its EU accession process
The plan emphasises structural reforms and investments in the sectors with the greatest growth potential. It covers planned improvements in public administration, underlining good governance, adherence to the rule of law and the fight against corruption and fraud.
On 14 May 2024, the Council approved the 'Ukraine plan', noting in particular that – as a result of this plan – Ukraine fulfils the precondition for support under the Ukraine Facility.
In addition, financial support under the 'Ukraine plan' is made available on the precondition that Ukraine continues to uphold and respect effective democratic mechanisms.
The facility is equipped with a robust framework for audit and control. A dedicated independent audit board scrutinises use of the funds.
Payments to Ukraine are disbursed by the EU, subject to implementation of the agreed reforms and investments.
At the Council, the Ad hoc Working Party on Reconstruction and Support for Ukraine is in charge of assessing Ukraine's progress on reforms and approves disbursements under the Ukraine Facility.
Why a new instrument?
Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine has caused Ukraine damages amounting to hundreds of billions.
Reconstruction costs are estimated at more than €500 billion over the next decade, resulting in a loss of access to financial markets and a significant drop in public revenue, while public expenditure to address the humanitarian situation and to maintain the continuity of state services has increased markedly.
The facility gives the EU a unified and legal instrument that ensures a consistent and transparent approach and a coherent and integrated policy response to Ukraine's situation. The facility replaces previous support through the MFA+ programme and the neighbourhood, development and international cooperation instrument (NDICI).
At the same time, the facility makes it possible to link Ukraine's recovery, reconstruction and modernisation efforts to its EU accession path. With the creation of the Ukraine plan, funds are being disbursed when sectoral and structural reforms and investments are delivered.
The facility also provides a clear mid-term perspective, with predictable funding for the 2024-2027 period. Predictability is important for Ukraine, but also for international partners and other donors.
See also
EU solidarity with Ukraine
Russia's war against Ukraine
EU military support for Ukraine
Last review: 5 October 2026
