{"id":458407,"date":"2026-06-30T12:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/06\/30\/ucraina-lue-eroga-39-miliardi-per-lacquisto-di-droni-anti-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:03:01","slug":"ukraine-eu-disburses-3-9-billion-to-buy-drones-to-counter-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/06\/30\/ukraine-eu-disburses-3-9-billion-to-buy-drones-to-counter-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: EU disburses 3.9 billion to buy drones to counter Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 <strong>The European Commission is providing Kyiv with 3.9 billion euros for drone procurement<\/strong>, the first instalment of a roughly 6\u202fbillion-euro military\u2011aid tranche meant to help Ukraine withstand Russia\u2019s war of aggression. The disbursement of 3.9 billion euros was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/06\/25\/eu-disburses-first-3-2-billion-euro-tranche-of-its-90-billion-package-for-ukraine\/\"> announced by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, a few days ago<\/a>. The cheque issued today (30 June) forms part of the wider 90-billion-euro support loan to Ukraine via the financial instrument known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_26_90\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine Support Loan<\/a>, which provides 30 billion euros in budgetary aid and 60 billion euros in defence support for the period 2026\u20132027.<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"it\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">&nbsp;\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funding had been announced a few days ago by the President of the European Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":438810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25774,30809],"tags":[28370,26403,33394,30781],"class_list":["post-458407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-defence-security","tag-aid-military-en","tag-war-russia-in-ukraine-en","tag-ue","tag-ukraine-in-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458407"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458412,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458407\/revisions\/458412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}