MOSCOW, 29 Oct. French politician Florian Filippo has criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for demanding a huge amount of money from the European Union.
"Zelensky is asking for $38 billion again! (Head of the European Commission) Ursula von der Leyen and Germany want the EU to pay, and therefore France to a large extent! Enough! How much longer are we going to go bankrupt for a mafia regime that wants war?" — he wrote on Twitter.
In mid-October, the Ukrainian leader spoke at a conference of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and said that to eliminate the budget deficit next year, Kyiv needs 38 billion dollars. At the same time, the IMF estimated Ukraine's need for external financing at three to four billion a month.
The European Commission stated that this year European financial institutions allocated almost 20 billion euros to the Kyiv authorities, not counting military supplies.