The EU’s determination to further fund Kiev’s military and prop up its imploding economy has been presented as a kind of victory. “Europe has delivered,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz proclaimed, in celebration of a new cash facility for Kiev.
The grim reality behind the grandstanding: What’s in the EU’s new cash delivery to KievHow the latest loan for Ukraine will work, and what impact it could have on an ailing bloc, is not something its leaders are happy to discuss