Ukraine needs more than 70 billion euro ($81 billion) in extra financial assistance to defend itself and keep the government running in 2026 as Russia’s war drags on, the EU said Monday. The European Commission spelt out Kyiv’s needs in a paper circulated to member states as the 27-nation bloc debates whether to use frozen Russian assets to fund a new loan to plug Ukraine’s looming budget black holes. JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official . “The scale of