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Zelenskyy says Ukraine needs European support for 2-3 more years of fighting

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine

28 October 2025 13:28 (UTC +04:00)

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine needs European financial support to continue fighting Russian forces for another two or three years, APA reports, citing Le Monde.

Kyiv has been largely dependent on military and financial support from allies abroad to hold off Moscow's army, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

"I emphasized this again to all European leaders. I told them that we are not going to fight for decades, but you must show that for some time you will be able to provide stable financial support to Ukraine," Zelenskyy said in comments released Tuesday. "And that is why they have this program in mind – two to three years," Zelenskyy said, referring to Brussels' plans to tap Russia's frozen assets to help Kyiv.

EU leaders last week tasked the European Commission to move ahead with options for funding Ukraine for two more years, leaving the door open for a mammoth loan using tens of billions of euros in Russian state assets that the bloc has frozen.

"If the war ends in a month, we will spend this money on recovery. If it does not end in a month, but after some time, then we will spend it on weapons. We simply have no other choice," Zelenskyy added.