The Ukraine Support Tracker: Which countries help Ukraine and how?

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This paper presents the 'Ukraine Support Tracker', which lists and quantifies military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war. This fourth version covers government commitments made between January 24 and June 7, 2022 and has a new detailed overview on weapon deliveries. We track support by 37 governments, including all G7 and European Union member countries, plus by EU institutions (thus including 38 donors). Private donations and aid through non-governmental organizations are not included due to a lack of systematic data, but we do show estimates on government costs of hosting Ukrainian refugees. To value in-kind support like military equipment or foodstuff, we rely on government statements as well as own calculations using market prices. We find significant differences in the scale of support across countries, both in absolute terms and as percent of donor country GDP. In billions of Euros, by far the largest bilateral supporter of Ukraine is the United States, followed by the EU institutions, the United Kingdom, and Germany. In percent of donor GDP, Eastern European countries stand out as particularly generous, and this is even more so once we account for refugee costs. Importantly, we now also document delays in aid delivery. Only about 17% of financial commitments have actually been disbursed to Ukraine. Moreover, some countries, like Germany or the US, have delivered less than half of the weapons they committed.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 2218

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Foreign Aid ; International Conflicts; Negotiations; Sanctions ; National Security and War ; National Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt ; Disaster Aid ; Governmental Loans; Loan Guarantees; Credits; Grants; Bailouts
• Subject: international aid ; military aid ; war ; geoeconomics

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Antezza, Arianna ; Frank, André ; Frank, Pascal ; Franz, Lukas ; Rebinskaya, Ekaterina ; Trebesch, Christoph
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/260617
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET