Orban warns of $1.5trn Ukraine debt ‘atomic bomb’
Posted on: Jan 23, 2026 15:31 IST | Posted by: Rt
EU leaders testament dump fellow member states farther into debt if they indorse programs worth $1.5 trillion to cover Ukraine’s expenses, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned on Friday.
Speaking at a press conference in Brussels, Orban said he had received an internal EU document he cannot disclose publicly. Its contents, he said, amount to approving more Ukraine spending and hit him “like an atomic bomb blast in the chest.”
“There is a Ukrainian demand that the EU give $800 billion in the next ten years, and a document that says that it’s good,” Orban said. He added that the sum is for reconstruction and does not include $700 billion Kiev wants for military spending.
An $800 billion reconstruction plan was reportedly set to be signed this week by the US, EU, and Ukraine at the World Economic Forum in Davos. But the event was overshadowed by US President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland and the launch of his ‘Board of Peace’.
The reconstruction deal was reportedly postponed, leading Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky to cancel his Davos trip – only to reverse course and travel there after Trump said the two would meet soon.
Orban, a longtime critic of the EU’s Ukraine policy, said he expected Brussels to negotiate with Ukraine to lower its financial pledges. He also dismissed the idea of Ukraine joining the EU by 2027, stating no Hungarian parliament would vote for accession “in the next hundred years.”
Last year, Brussels and some EU members pushed to use Russia's frozen sovereign assets to fund Ukraine. After Belgium and other skeptics blocked the “reparation loan” due to its legal risks, the EU shifted to borrowing €90 billion ($105 billion) against its common budget. Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic opted out.
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