UK has given Ukraine 17 TIMES MORE than Macron’s France, in military assistance

Macron’s France: €233 million – UK: Over €4 BILLION

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The independent UK has committed more than the top 5 EU countries combined

It’s little wonder President Zelenskyy considers the newly-independent United Kingdom to be Ukraine’s No.1 ally in Europe. In today’s report we reveal the wide disparity between the UK’s response to Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, and that of EU countries.

Using data from the aid tracker from Germany’s Institute for the World Economy in Kiel, Facts4EU.Org looks at the UK’s response to Ukraine’s calls for help, compared with the responses of EU countries.

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Provision of military equipment and funding thereof by European countries, from the invasion on 24 Feb 2022

These figures are based on the latest update issued 18 Aug 2022

United Kingdom : € 4.03bn
Poland : € 1.80
Germany : € 1.20
Czech Republic : € 0.34
Denmark : € 0.27
Latvia : € 0.25
Estonia : € 0.25
France : € 0.23
Sweden : € 0.23
Slovakia : € 0.19
Netherlands : € 0.18
Italy : € 0.15
Greece : € 0.13
Lithuania : € 0.12
Belgium : € 0.08
Spain : € 0.05
Luxembourg : € 0.05
Slovenia : € 0.03
Finland : € 0.03
Croatia : € 0.02
Portugal : € 0.01
Bulgaria : € 0.00
Austria : € 0.00
Romania : € 0.00
Hungary : € 0.00
Ireland : € 0.00
Cyprus : € 0.00
Malta : € 0.00

[Source: IFW-Kiel, latest tracker data issued 18 Aug 2022.]

The EU’s major economies do not come out of this well

Any comparison of the military help given to Ukraine paints a poor picture for the vast majority of EU27 countries.

In particular, the EU’s largest economy Germany has committed less than 30% of the UK’s total – and most of that still has not arrived. The EU’s second-largest economy France, under President Macron, has committed less than 6% of the UK’s total. For Italy it’s less than 4%.

Macron’s ‘jaw-jaw’ hasn’t stopped Putin from waging ‘war-war’

The French President has spoken many times on the subject of Ukraine. He has visited Moscow to hold a meeting with Putin and has held innumerable calls with him. The photo above is genuine. It comes directly from the Kremlin and is perhaps one of the most striking images showing how the Russian President has a trouibling power complex.

If Emmanuel Macron thought he could persuade Vladimir Putin to stop his illegal war, the best that can be said is that this was naïve.

Instead of pulling back, Putin has doubled down, issuing a call-up of 300,000 reservists to bolster his failing army occupying part of Ukraine. All of Macron’s initiatives have fallen on deaf ears.

An important note about the German data

Germany’s Institute for the World Economy in Kiel is only tracking military and financial commitments by countries since Putin invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

The figures we have shown above therefore do not include the UK’s six years of commitments to Ukraine prior to the outbreak of war. In 2015, following Putin’s illegal invasion and annexation of Crimea, the United Kingdom started training the Ukrainian army. Many thousands of officers and soldiers were trained by UK military personnel and this process continues to this day.

None of these additional costs are included in the German data. If they were, the numbers would be even more embarrassing for the EU.

Observations

We are aware that some readers do not approve of the UK Government’s stance on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. We also know that some people would prefer a response to Putin akin to Chamberlain’s and the Establishment’s response to Hitler in the late 1930’s.

We have our views and all competing views are valid and should be aired. In keeping with our facts-based philosophy, our report above merely sets out a comparison between the UK’s response to date to Putin’s aggression, and that of the UK’s largest economies.

Finally, it is worth noting that it has been the smaller countries in the East who have given far more as a percentage of their GDP in support of Ukraine than have the larger nations in the EU.

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Reader Comments 10

1. terence patrick hewett , Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 07:32:

Putin thought he could murder people in the UK, whom he did not like, with impunity. Like so many other of his decisions; he got it disastrously wrong.

2. LuxuryBalloon , Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 08:49:

This more than justifies our reasoning that the EU should sort out the Ukrainian refugee crisis … and not us.

3. Selwyn Davies , Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 08:59:

Says it all regarding the French and the Germans. Can’t trust them

4. John Hardman , Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 13:27:

EU have no shame.
Utter contempt for all of them.

5. Adam , Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 15:37:

Why would Ukraine want to join the EU when it does deals with the Russians by purchasing their oil and gas Liz Truss may turn things around if she reopens fracking explores North sea gas and tries to get the national debt down and not allow future Briton's to burdened by our profigacy, if Truss does all or some of this we may be spared a Starmer led Government I am a sdp member btw

6. Adam , Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 18:30:

Whilst I hope for an end to the Russian Ukraine situation imagine the £4.01billion that Johnson and Truss have siphoned to Kyiv could go to help the British people our ruling class of both parties don't give a 💩 about us We need alternatives to the Tories and Labour the SDP or Libertarian party perhaps?

7. jon livesey , Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 19:52:

That the UK has been out in front in supporting Ukraine is a very good thing, but we are getting to the point where supplying more weapons and ammunition is going to be more difficult than sending money. The West has been running down its reserves of weapons and is close to the point where it can not send more. I think this could be one thing Putin is depending on as he tries to extend the war through the winter.

8. Statista , Thursday, September 29, 2022, 14:05:

Congrats; after the pound predictably nose-dived the other day, there was a narrow but fading opportunity to slip this one in before everyone has to face up to the inevitable conclusion that we simply won't be able to continue this for much longer. Probably not after this winter, certainly not if the conservatives win in America. They love a bare-chested man on horseback, who also happens to have an enviable job arrangement that is free from elect-ability or accountability, in perpetuity.
Putin will drag this out from the warmth & security of his winter palace/bunker.
An inconvenient fact is that some elements in EU countries want to emulate him - Italy, France, Hungary & other places that are themselves engaged in geopolitical Russian roulette - with the encouragement of Brexiteers - some of whom are smitten by Putin.
Putin now knows with certainty that he can count on an increasing number of foreign admirers to validate his advance - socially & politically, if not militarily.
Daily, he sees the fruits of his disinformation: increasing polarisation & hyper-normalised political mediocrity, the reversal of individual rights, either apathetic or delusional citizens; all as validation of his life-long quest.
He bet on nationalist,traditionalist, imperialist self-interest re-emerging &
Brexit, the grift that keeps on giving, handed it to him on a platter.

9. Statista , Thursday, September 29, 2022, 14:16:

Coincidentally, or not, the economic result of all this is that the US is now the world's largest gas supplier. It is also about to take in manufacturers who'll flee the chaos unfolding in Europe. Just when the US wants to remove manufacturing from China.
It is far from over but so far biggest winner in all this is America.
The biggest loser is whoever is left holding the biggest bag.
We are at 4 billion & counting. More than anyone else, as you put it.
All this was avoidable had politicians & voters bothered to connect the dots being drawn around them.
Once again, Brexiteers lured by self-interest; won at checkers but lost at chess; & will lose again if, instead of contending with the EU, would rally Europe against Russia, the US & China. Division precedes invasion - every time.
We have no coherent long play, are too busy owning oppositions, winning at culture wars, are too busy tearing down instead of building, fumbling from one unforced error to another, no US FTA in sight - just near enough to keep us on leash.
Short-termism is the play of the day, everyday.
How many PMs will it take just to get statesmanship back into the driving seat?
The highway is no place for learner drivers, who have no map & can't read the signs.

10. Sparky , Friday, September 30, 2022, 05:28:

This piece makes use of selective data ignoring the two largest supporters of Ukraine, the USA (€44.53 billion) and the EU (€16.24 billion). The EU has provided support on behalf of EU members separate from and in addition to support from individual EU counties. Russian interference in the 2016 US elections and the Brexit campaign helped create the division and chaotic politics in the west that gave Putin the confidence to invade Ukraine. The support from the UK (€6.51 billion) is making a massive difference, Putin will only be defeated by the west standing united against his actions.

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