EU funding for Ukraine Gdańsk and funding criticism

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Yulia Olkhovskaya reports the Gdańsk Ukraine Recovery Conference with a critical Russian framing. Von der Leyen describes €200 billion of prior EU aid, a €90 billion two-year commitment and a €3.2 billion first tranche to be disbursed that day. The report and a quoted Euractiv account attribute a reduction from an expected nearly €6 billion to oversight issues; Merz stresses corruption control and rule of law. A brief attributed ARD allegation concerns weapons reaching European criminals. Fico claims €370 billion has been spent without changing the war, recalls Slovakia's refusal to join a war loan and pledges to avoid participation in proposed €70 billion annual financing. The remainder discusses Zelenskyy's absence, a canceled Olena Zelenska speech and Poland–Ukraine historical-memory disputes, quoting Tusk, an NZZ assessment, Miller's reply to Rymanowski and Nastić. It cites an Israeli embassy condemnation of a Kyiv march and questions put to Pistorius about nationalist symbols. The programme's corruption, weapons-diversion and extremist-characterization claims remain attributed; these excerpts do not independently prove those allegations, a completed transfer or a new policy by every person mentioned.

In a replayed statement, Fico claims the EU has spent 370 billion euros on the war without changing it, recalls Slovakia's refusal to join a war loan and says he is glad the Czech Republic and Hungary also refused. He describes proposed 70-billion-euro annual financing and promises to do everything possible to keep Slovakia from participating. The amounts and interpretations remain his claims; the pledge is not a completed veto or disbursement decision, and the original statement's date is unresolved.