War in Ukraine: Marine Le Pen “will maintain aid for six months” if she is elected in 2027

She never gave a timetable. Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday that she would “maintain financial aid to Ukraine for six months” if she is elected president in 2027. “But then we will stop financial aid because we no longer have the means to do it,” she declared on Flemish television VRT News on the sidelines of a meeting in Brussels with her European allies from the Patriots group.

This one-semester reprieve is a new element in the speech of the National Rally candidate at the Élysée. In recent weeks, she had already justified her desire to stop financial support for kyiv. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump reversed course by announcing a deal with Russia to purchase diesel and calling on the Ukrainians to “get a new leader”.

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kyiv can turn to “other EU countries”, according to Le Pen

“I am not taking anyone as a traitor,” Marine Le Pen, for her part, defended herself, arguing that “France is on the verge of default” in paying its public debt and that in these conditions, “it is a speech of honesty with regard to (Volodymyr) Zelensky to tell him that we can no longer assume this financial aid,” she said. Failing to be able to count on Paris, she estimated that kyiv could turn to "other countries of the European Union which are in a better financial situation than France and which will most certainly be able to take over", without specifying which ones.