Ukraine needs approximately $52 billion in external financing for 2026 to ensure the stability of the state budget and cover essential defense and social costs, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko announced at the sixteenth meeting of the Steering Committee of the Ukraine Donor Platform in Kyiv on Thursday. The $52 billion figure for 2026 is roughly equivalent to the amount of direct budget support received from Ukraine’s partners in 2025. The state budget remains under heavy pressure from