{"id":24170,"date":"2025-03-02T04:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T04:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-much-has-the-us-given-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T04:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T04:11:03","slug":"how-much-has-the-us-given-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-much-has-the-us-given-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"How much has the US given to Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump discussed support for Ukraine<\/figcaption><\/p>\n
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Support for Ukraine <\/a>has become a key issue since Donald Trump returned to the White House.<\/p>\n

President Trump has made a number of claims about how much the United States has spent compared to European countries.<\/p>\n

But some of his claims are questionable – with no evidence to back them up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Has the United States spent $300-$350bn on Ukraine aid?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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President Trump has made this claim on a number of occasions – including when he hosted France’s President Macron in the White House this week.<\/p>\n

Short answer: Figures suggest the actual spend is much lower.<\/p>\n

BBC Verify can find no evidence to back up the claim. There are different calculations on US spending in or related to Ukraine – and they produce a much lower figure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Kiel Institute is a German-based think tank tracking support going into Ukraine. It calculated that the United States spent $119.7bn (\u00a394.3bn) on aid between January 2022 and December 2024.<\/p>\n

Others have reached a higher figure – but with a broader definition of what counts as spending on Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The US Department of Defense has provided a figure looking at all spending on Operation Atlantic Resolve – a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n

It says $182.8bn has been “appropriated” – a figure that covers US military training in Europe and replenishment of US defence stocks.<\/p>\n

Either way, both figures are considerably lower than claimed by the president.<\/p>\n

We asked the White House about the basis for the $350bn claim. So far, it hasn’t provided an explanation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Has the United States spent $200bn more than Europe?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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President Trump has claimed: “We’ve spent more than $300bn and Europe has spent about $100bn – that’s a big difference”<\/p>\n

Short answer: Figures suggest Europe has spent more when all aid is included and, as above, we can’t find any evidence for the $300bn figure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The United States is, by some margin, the largest single donor to Ukraine. But Europe combined has spent more money than the United States, according to the Kiel Institute.<\/p>\n

The figure includes aid directly from the European Union, but also from bilateral deals from European countries, both inside and outside the EU. It includes military, financial and humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n

They calculate that between 24 January 2022 and the end of 2024, Europe as a whole spent $138.7bn on Ukraine. In the same period, the United States spent $119.7bn, according to their figures.<\/p>\n

NATO secretary general Mark Rutte made a similar argument, adding Canada into his calculation.<\/p>\n

Mr Rutte said February 2025: “In 2024, NATO Allies provided over 50 billion euros in security assistance to Ukraine \u2013 nearly 60% of this coming from Europe and Canada.”<\/p>\n

We asked for NATO’s figures, but they said they were classified.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Will Europe get its money back while the United States doesn’t?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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This is a claim President Trump made when he hosted President Macron. It prompted President Macron to disagree, saying both Europe and the US had given a mixture of grants and loans.<\/p>\n

Short answer: The EU has provided loans, but also grants. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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President Macron is correct, according to Kiel figures. But they suggest President Trump also has a point; the US has sent more grants, while the EU sent more loans.<\/p>\n

However, again, there are different figures out there.<\/p>\n

The European Union says EU countries have provided around $145bn in aid so far and that just 35% of that has been loans. Like the United States Department of Defence, the EU has used a broader definition of what counts as aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

EU loans will have been on generous terms – so Ukraine will be repaying less interest than it would normally. In some cases, Ukraine isn’t expected to pay anything, with repayments coming from revenues from frozen Russian assets.<\/p>\n

What we can say is that aid to Ukraine has been a mixture of loans and grants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

How much has the UK given to Ukraine<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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The UK is one of the biggest individual state donors to Ukraine – the latest was a $2.8bn (\u00a32.26bn) loan agreement signed during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to London on 1 March.<\/p>\n

The only countries to have spent more are the United States and Germany, according to Kiel data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the UK contributions are much smaller than the United States.<\/p>\n

That raises a question for the UK and other European countries; if the United States withdraws a large part of its funding to Ukraine, can other states make up the difference?<\/p>\n

That would require a significant increase in their contributions.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting: Thomas Spencer and Tamara Kovacevic<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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