The situation in Ukraine, as far as military aid is concerned, has changed radically since he returned to the White House more than a year ago, on January 20, 2025.
The American president promised that he had the ‘magic formula’ to end the crisis in just a few hoursHowever, the reality is that the armed conflict is heading into its fourth year (it will do so on Tuesday, February 24) without peace, a priori, appearing to arrive in the short term.
Perhaps one of the keys of Trump’s strategy to stop the race was reduce military aid to Ukraine to a minimumthus pressuring the country chaired by Volodymyr Zelensky to sign a peace agreement (even if it were under conditions that were not advantageous to its interests).
Donald Trump has indeed made a deadlock when it comes to military support for Ukraine. Specifically, The American president has cut his country’s aid to Ukraine by 99%.
Ukraine resists (with the help of Europe)
Despite this almost total reduction in US military aid, Ukraine continues to resist on the battlefieldresulting in Russian troops being unable to achieve significant territorial advances.
However, for the Ukrainian resistance to continue, It has been essential that Europe has partially supplied the aid that has stopped arriving from the US. The old continent It has increased its spending on military aid to Ukraine by 67%.
Specifically, figures from the ‘Ukraine Support Tracker’ of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) indicate that European Union military aid to Ukraine has increased from just over 17 billion euros between 2022 and 2024 to almost 29 billion euros between 2024 and 2025.
