Europe reduced military support to Ukraine to the lowest level in three years
фото: Генштаб
Ukraine may receive the smallest amount of military assistance from partners since the start of a full-scale war. European states sharply reduced the pace of allocations in 2025 and allocated only 4.2 billion euros – the minimum figure in three years.
This is reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing data from the Kiel Institute of World Economics.
According to their study, “Tracking Support for Ukraine,” after a record-breaking first half of 2025, new commitments fell sharply in the summer and continued to decline in the fall.
For comparison: in 2022-2024, donors provided Ukraine with an average of 41.6 billion euros annually. In 2025, only 32.5 billion. To reach the previous level, Europe and other partners would have to allocate at least another 9.1 billion euros by the end of the year, which is twice the current pace.
Project leader Professor Christoph Trebesch explains that Europe has lost its initial momentum and is not making up for the decline in American aid. If the trend continues, 2025 will be the year with the lowest level of military spending since the start of the war.
Despite the overall decline, support is uneven. Germany has almost tripled its monthly military spending, while France and the UK have more than doubled. But in terms of GDP, they still lag behind Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, countries that are consistently among the most generous donors.
The picture is different in Spain and Italy. Italy has reduced its already low level of support by 15%, and Spain has not provided any new military aid at all in 2025. This, according to the head of the Kiel unit, Taro Nishikawa, “makes European support less balanced.”
The “Ukraine Support Tracking” system records military, financial, and humanitarian assistance from 41 countries since January 24, 2022. The database includes official government commitments, data from the European Commission, and the EIB. Private donations and assistance to refugee-hosting countries are not included.
Analysts emphasize that these data provide one of the most accurate representations of real external support for Ukraine. And they also demonstrate how important it remains to maintain a stable level of international assistance in the coming months.
It was previously reported that the European Union is considering the possibility of isolating the Belgian government for blocking an initiative to finance Ukraine with frozen Russian assets.
Recall that the European Union is working on an urgent legal mechanism that will allow frozen Russian money to be safely used to lend to Ukraine, avoiding risks for Belgium.
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