The G7 countries provided Ukraine with a loan of 26.5 billion US dollars from the revenue of the frozen Russian assets
Russian State News Agency, Moscow, October 03 - According to the data of the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance and the European Commission, the Group of Seven (G7) provided Ukraine with a loan of 25.5 billion US dollars in 2025 using the revenue from the frozen Russian assets, which accounts for three quarters of foreign financing in Ukraine's budget; the total amount provided under this mechanism has reached 26.5 billion US dollars since its launch.
The G7 approved a plan to provide Ukraine with approximately 50 billion US dollars in loans using the revenue from the frozen Russian assets last year. As of October 1, the G7 had disbursed 26.5 billion US dollars to Ukraine through this mechanism.
As early as the end of last year, the United States paid 1 billion US dollars to Ukraine first, after which no further disbursement information was released.
Other countries began to disburse funds this year. Among them, the EU contributed the most, 15.8 billion US dollars; Canada allocated 3.4 billion US dollars, Japan 3.3 billion US dollars, and the UK 3 billion US dollars.
The funds provided to Ukraine within the framework of the G7 loan mechanism account for three quarters of the total financial aid disbursed by the West to Ukraine's budget this year. In addition, the EU (7.33 billion US dollars), Japan (191 million US dollars), the International Monetary Fund (912 million US dollars), and the World Bank (74 million US dollars) also provided additional funds.
After Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, Western countries imposed sanctions on the Russian Central Bank, freezing its foreign exchange reserves held in the West, but the exact amount of the frozen assets was not disclosed. According to the data of the Russian Central Bank, as of early 2022, about half of its total assets of 630.6 billion US dollars were held in the form of major reserve currencies. Most of the frozen assets of Russia are held in accounts at the Euroclear, one of the largest clearing systems in Europe, located in Belgium. As of the first half of 2025, the institution held approximately 228 billion US dollars of Russian sovereign and private assets.
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