Marine Le Pen would halt Ukraine aid after six months if elected French president

Marine Le Pen said Wednesday she would maintain financial aid to Ukraine for six months if elected French president in 2027, then halt it, citing France's lack of resources. She made the statement to VRT News in Brussels. Le Pen argued France is near an inability to pay its public debt, calling her position honest toward Volodymyr Zelensky. She suggested other EU countries in better financial shape could take over support, without naming them. Le Pen's National Rally party previously repaid a 9.4 million euro loan from a Moscow bank in 2023. Though she met Putin in 2017, she has condemned Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.