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EU Assistance to Ukraine (in U.S. Dollars)

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  • The European Union (EU) and our 27 Member States remain united and determined in our unprecedented support for Ukraine. Since the start of the war, the EU and our Member States have made available over $126 billion* in financial, military, humanitarian, and refugee assistance.
  • In addition, in February 2024, European leaders agreed to commit up to $54 billionuntil 2027 for a new Ukraine Facility to support Ukraine's recovery, reconstruction and modernization, as well as its efforts to carry out reforms as part of its accession path to the EU. This will bring our commitments to date to over $167 billion. $13.1 billion was already disbursed under the Ukraine Facility and an additional $1.5 billion in grants and guarantees was signed to support recovery and attract investments.
  • Furthermore, in July 2024, the EU made available the first $1.6 billion generated from immobilized Russian assets, which will be channeled through the European Peace Facility and to the Ukraine Facility to support Ukraine's military capabilities as well as to support the country's reconstruction.
  • In December 2023, European leaders endorsed opening accession negotiations with Ukraine.Ukraine has shown remarkable determination and progress on reforms, including anti-corruption, while defending its country and its people against Russia's aggression. Ukraine is already a member of the European family and we will continue supporting Ukraine every step of the way on its path to EU membership.
  • Since the start of Russia's illegal war, we have worked in lockstep with the United States and other partners to impose massive sanctions on Russia, its military, and its economy, as well as to isolate Russia internationally, in spite of their negative effects on Europe's economy.
  • The EU also moved at lightning speed to diversify our energy supplies and decouple from Russian fossil fuels, banning Russian coal and oil imports and drastically reducing gas imports. The U.S. commitment to support Europe in substituting U.S. LNG for the majority of imported Russian gas has been instrumental in derailing Putin's plans.

Collective EU and EU Member State support to Ukraine includes:

  • Over $60 billion in financial and budgetary support and in humanitarian and emergency assistance. This support is as essential as military assistance to ensure Ukraine's success on the battlefield. It allows Ukraine to keep paying wages and pensions and maintain essential public services, such as hospitals, schools, and housing for relocated people. It also ensures macroeconomic stability, and helps restore critical infrastructure destroyed. It includes:
    • $27.3 billion of financial assistance to Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
    • $13.1 billion of bridge financing from the Ukraine Facility disbursed in March 2024
    • $13.2 billion of financial assistance directly from EU Member States in grants, loans, and guarantees
    • $2.8 billion in loans from the EIB and EBRD guaranteed by the EU budget
    • $3.9 billion in humanitarian aid, emergency assistance, budget support and crisis response and $122 million to rebuild Ukrainian schools
    • Over 145,000 tonnes of in-kind assistance, including medical supplies, mobile hospitals, shelters, school buses, ambulances, firefighting equipment, and close to 7,700 power generators, with an estimated value of over $907 million, have been provided via the EU Civil Protection Mechanism by 35 participating countries, coordinated by the EU
    • The EU has coordinated over 3,400 medical evacuations of Ukrainian patients to provide them with specialized healthcare in hospitals across Europe
  • Over $47 billion in military assistance - ranging from ammunition to air-defence systems, Leopard tanks, and fighter jets. This includes an unprecedented $6.6 billion from the "European Peace Facility," in addition to bilateral contributions from our Member States. On top of that, in March 2024, the Council established a dedicated Ukraine Assistance Fund worth $5.4 billion. EU support also includes $2.2 billion for the joint procurement and delivery of up to an additional one million rounds of artillery ammunition, and an additional $535 million to boost EU defense industry capacities in ammunition production. The EU is today the largest military training provider to the Ukrainian armed forces - by the end of 2024, 60,000 Ukrainian military personnel will be trained under the EU's $390 million Military Assistance Mission. An additional $27 million have been provided for humanitarian de-mining of liberated territories.
  • Up to $18 billion from the EU budget to support Ukrainian refugees who have fled to EU Member States since February 2022. Close to 8 million refugees have been recorded in the EU, mainly women, children, and older persons, and more than 4 million Ukrainians have registered for temporary protection in the EU, which means they are entitled to work, accommodation, healthcare, as well as schooling for their children. Today, close to 20 percent of Ukraine's children are taking refuge in the EU.
  • Over $1 billion to boost "EU Solidarity Lanes" to transport Ukrainian food to the world and address the food security crisis caused by Russia's war. These lanes have already helped Ukraine export over 150 million tonnes of goods, including 75 million tonnes of grains and related products, and generated much-needed revenue for Ukraine's economy.
  • We have temporarily suspended EU import duties for exports from Ukraine. The latest figures show Ukraine's exports are exceeding pre-war levels, again with massive beneficial consequences for Ukraine's wartime economy.

By bringing war back to Europe, Putin plans not only to destroy Ukraine and destabilize Europe, but tear up international law and the UN Charter and undermine peace and security in the entire world, with dire consequences for vital American and European global security interests.

We are grateful to the United States for its unwavering bipartisan support to Ukraine, and for standing with the European Union as we jointly work to ensure Ukraine's victory in its ongoing fight for survival as an independent country and a sovereign nation. This is not the moment to weaken our support to Ukraine. Ukraine can only defeat Putin's aggression if it stands firmly on two legs of American and European support.

* EUR values converted into USD at the 12-month average ECB reference exchange rate as of 4 September. The total figure includes $13.1 billion already mobilized under the Ukraine Facility.