These numbers include military, financial and humanitarian assistance – informs the newspaper “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” (“SZ”). Considering only the military assistance area, the United States continues, though slightly: since February 2022, they allocated a total of EUR 65 billion, about EUR 1 billion more than Europe.
As IFW notes, since Donald Trump took the office of president, the US has not approved any new help. The last tranche of weapons worth $ 500 million was approved on January 9, during the rule of Trump's predecessor – Joe Biden. On the other hand, European assistance continues continuously, which means that discrepancies in statistics deepen.
“Trump falsely claimed that the US had spent $ 350 billion”
“SZ”, describing the IFW study, notes that “Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed that the US has already spent $ 350 billion (EUR 310 billion) to help Ukraine, while European countries have spent only $ 100 billion (EUR 88 billion)”.
The Ukraine Support Tracker also shows that many Western European countries provide much less support compared to Scandinavian and Baltic countries – says “SZ”. Countries such as Estonia and Denmark allocated over 2 percent to Ukraine. your gross domestic product. In Germany and Great Britain it is slightly below 0.5 percent, in France, Italy and Spain – only 0.1 to 0.2 percent.
