NATO Considers New €70bn Military Aid Package for Ukraine

NATO member states are negotiating a new €70bn commitment of military support for Ukraine. The proposal, put forward by Germany last month, could be presented at the alliance's summit in Ankara next month.

The package is intended to include a mechanism for greater transparency of funding, as some member states have pointed to the uneven distribution of costs.

According to diplomats, €30bn would come from the European Union's already-approved €90bn two-year loan program for Ukraine, with a further €40bn drawn from bilateral commitments by individual countries.

The discussions come at a time when the Trump administration has halted almost all new military aid to Kyiv, with the United States supplying arms only with allies' money.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on European countries to supply more Patriot systems to defend against Russian ballistic missiles.

Support for Ukraine will be among the main topics at the NATO leaders' summit on 7 and 8 July. Ukraine's ambassador to NATO, Alyona Getmanchuk, said new commitments should focus primarily on air defense, drone and missile production and longer-range munitions.

(politico, bak)