EU leaders approved a €90bn loan for Ukraine after failing to agree on using €210bn in frozen Russian assets, with Belgium seeking legal safeguards before releasing the funds.President Zelensky welcomed the loan as vital for Ukraine’s resilience,

The European Union (EU) has agreed on a €90 billion ($105 billion) loan to Ukraine to help it through Russia's ongoing invasion, a vital financial lifeline for Kyiv as it bears the vast cost of Moscow's ongoing invasion.

European leaders are pledging to provide Ukraine with military force support against Russia, as talks between Washington and Kyiv to end the war with Moscow continue.

Ukraine has said it had hit a Russian "shadow fleet" tanker with aerial drones in neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea, its first strike in the sea in the nearly four-year war.

A US-backed European peacekeeping force would secure an eventual peace deal, with additional help for Ukraine to build an 800,000-strong peacetime force.

The U.S. has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia's nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend, U.S. officials said Monday following the latest discussions with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine was expected to give its latest peace proposals to U.S. negotiators Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, a day ahead of his urgent talks with leaders and officials from about 30 other countries supporting Kyiv’s effort to end the war with Russia on acceptable terms.