EU pays the final tranche of Ukraine budget support for 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with Taoiseach Micheal Martin (not seen) during a joint press conference at the Ukrainian Government Building in Kyiv, Ukraine, as the premier visits Ukraine to reiterate Irish solidarity with the Ukrainian authorities in the face of the Russian invasion. Picture date: Wednesday July 6, 2022.

The European Union on Thursday paid the final tranche of a multibillion-euro support package to Ukraine to help keep its war-ravaged economy afloat this year, leaving the country without a financial lifeline from Europe as of next month.

The EU has sent €1.5 billion each month in 2023 to ensure macroeconomic stability and rebuild critical infrastructure destroyed in the war.