
Vice-chairman of the National Rally party Sebastien Chenu said on BFMTV that France will not have the funds to further finance Ukraine due to high costs.
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France provides direct and indirect financial support to Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict.
France will not have sufficient funds to finance Kyiv. This was stated by the vice-chairman of the right-wing National Rally party, Sebastien Chenu, on the BFMTV channel.
“Will we have the funds tomorrow to write new checks or make loans that won’t be paid back? The answer is no,” he said.
According to the politician, supporting Ukraine costs the French 8 billion euros directly from French aid and 25 billion euros if we add France’s share in pan-European funding to Kyiv through the European Union.

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