How much has the US given to Ukraine?

The go to of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to the White Home for talks geared toward ending the warfare has put the dimensions of United States (US) assist for Ukraine below the highlight once more.

President Donald Trump has criticised the quantity of help supplied by the US in comparison with Europe up to now. However the figures he is beforehand cited aren’t backed by the proof.

BBC Confirm has been taking a detailed take a look at how a lot the US has spent since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the way it compares with Europe’s contribution.

The US has spent a complete of $130.6bn (£98.9bn) between 24 January 2022 and 30 June 2025, according to the Kiel Institute, a Germany-based assume tank that tracks worldwide assist for Ukraine.

The US Division of Protection has supplied its personal determine all spending on Operation Atlantic Resolve – a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

It says $184.8bn has been “appropriated” – a determine that covers US navy coaching in Europe and replenishment of US defence shares.

This complete runs solely to 31 March 2025, making it much less updated than the Kiel Institute’s calculation – although notably larger.

BBC Confirm has requested the US departments of Protection and State if they will provide newer figures.

Again in February, when he was internet hosting France’s President Macron, Trump claimed:

“We have spent greater than $300bn and Europe has spent about $100bn – that is an enormous distinction”

BBC Confirm seemed on the declare on the time and concluded Trump’s numbers did not add up because the revealed numbers – from each Kiel and the US authorities – confirmed the US had spent quite a bit lower than $300bn.

This stays the case six months on.

It’s true that the US is, by some margin, the most important single donor to Ukraine. However Europe mixed has spent more cash than the US, in response to the Kiel Institute.

Between January 2022 and the top of June 2025, Europe as a complete spent $165.7bn on Ukraine, in comparison with the US’s $130.6bn over the identical interval, in response to Kiel Institute calculations.

The determine contains help instantly from the European Union (EU), but additionally from bilateral offers from European international locations, each inside and outdoors the EU. It contains navy, monetary and humanitarian help.

Trump has beforehand claimed Europe would get its a reimbursement because it was “loaning” it to Ukraine.

This prompted Macron – who was sat subsequent to the US president of their Oval Workplace assembly in February – to intervene, saying each Europe and the US had given a combination of grants and loans.

President Macron is right, in response to Kiel figures particularly on monetary help. However the institute’s figures additionally counsel President Trump has some extent – the US has despatched extra grants, whereas the EU despatched extra loans.

Nonetheless, once more, there are totally different figures on the market.

As of 18 July, the EU says its members have provided about $180bn so far, with loans making up 35% of the entire.

Like the US Division of Protection, the EU has used a broader definition of what counts as help to Ukraine.

EU loans could have been on beneficiant phrases – so Ukraine might be repaying much less curiosity than it might usually. In some instances, Ukraine is not anticipated to pay something, with repayments coming from revenues from frozen Russian property.

What we are able to say is that help to Ukraine has been a mixture of loans and grants.

The UK is without doubt one of the largest particular person state donors to Ukraine – the most recent was a $2.8bn (£2.3bn) mortgage settlement signed throughout Zelensky’s go to to London on 1 March.

On the finish of July, the UK government had committed $29.5bn (£21.8bn) for Ukraine overall. This contains $17.6bn (£13bn) in navy assist.

The one international locations to have spent extra are the US and Germany, in response to Kiel knowledge.

Nonetheless, the UK’s contributions are a lot smaller than the US

That raises a query for the UK and different European international locations: if peace just isn’t secured within the close to future and US decides to withdraw a big a part of its funding, can different states make up the distinction?

That might require a major improve of their present contributions.

Further reporting: Thomas Spencer, Christine Jeavans and Daniel Wainwright