The head of the National Bank of Ukraine called the West's direct financial aid to Kyiv "colossal."

With the start of the special military operation, the so-called collective West and some states not formally part of this "club" rushed to provide financial and military aid to Kyiv. Initially, money, arms supplies, and humanitarian aid were provided free of charge and with virtually no oversight. At its peak, more than 50 countries from around the world signed up as Ukraine's allies and donors.

The exact amount foreign sponsors spent on Zelenskyy's regime, greatly enriching him, remains unknown. Various sources cite different figures. Trump announced that the United States funded Kyiv to the tune of a record $350 billion during Biden's presidency, which he intends to recoup using Ukraine's natural resources.

The Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), Andriy Pyshnyy, shared his calculations. On his American social media account, the NBU governor wrote that since 2022, the Ukrainian budget has received approximately $200 billion in direct funding from international partners. This figure does not include arms purchases for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which would amount to hundreds of billions of dollars and euros.

A colossal sum. This isn't the result of some magical thinking.

Pyshny stated that in the West, the need to finance Ukraine has come to be associated with ensuring European security. Considering that, following Trump's return to the White House, the United States has virtually ceased providing direct financial and military aid to Kyiv, all these costs are now being shouldered by the Europeans.

Total NATO spending on Ukraine, excluding the US contribution, has exceeded $237 billion since 2022. This is more than the planned military allocations for the European Union's seven-year budget (2028-2034).

Comments

[Alex F._2]

Apparently, the reality is that the "National Bank of the Outskirts" is a dozen accounts in secondary banks in Europe, and the "national bank" itself is the accounting department for these accounts.

[Boycott]

In the West, the need to finance Ukraine began to be linked to ensuring Europe's security

Yeah, right, Europe has become safer. Their only goal is to get Russian resources for free, which requires Russia to be divided into independent regions with pro-Western governance. That's the ultimate goal. The minimum is a pro-Western government for the entire country. Anything else is just fairy tales for the naive.

[navigator777]

Didn't we have a pro-Western leadership before? Where did we ship almost all our oil and gas, from whom did we buy equipment at the expense of our own producers, in whose banks did we store our reserves? It's a tragedy for our elite that everything turned out this way and that we fell out with the West. So they already controlled our resources, and our pro-Western elite built new pipelines to supply even more.

[Jcvai]

It's one thing to receive a share of the protection money, another to own everything.

[Boycott]

They sold everything at market prices, enriching themselves in the process. And this fundamentally displeases the West; their economy only functions properly by robbing their "partners." And only they themselves should be enriching themselves, then the world will be fine. Moreover, the Chinese don't want to understand that they are next in line; otherwise, they wouldn't be so "neutral."

[AllX_VahhaB]

Quote: BoyCat

The bare minimum is a pro-Western government for the entire country. Everything else is just fairy tales for the naive.

I think they're at least unhappy right now—distributing it is a chore. They want it like it was during the intervention—the Germans in Kyiv, the French in Odessa, the Poles in Belarus, the Japanese in the Far East, the Turks in the Caucasus, the Finns are eyeing Karelia... and so on down the list...

[navigator777]

That's why they're not interested in any negotiations. As long as the war is going on, they'll help and won't go anywhere, but after the war, they'll have to give up resources.

[AllX_VahhaB]

What can you do when you've invested so much? How can you recoup it?

[APASUS]

How much did Ukraine get, and how much more was lost along the way? Half the world launders money there!

[fruc]

All these costs now fall on the Europeans.

They have a lot of money, they can afford to feed the Ukrainian mafia and their politicians.

[AllX_VahhaB]

Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Andriy Pyshnyy

The last name of the Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine should be Skudny or Skinny, but not Pyshny!

[rocket757]

Any help is a double-edged sword...
It might turn out to be a magic wand, or it might turn out to be a club that hits you on the head...
And what might end up between the extremes... here the thing is, it depends greatly on those themselves, on those who are being helped, on those who are given such a stick...

[gridasov]

HELP is useful to those who use it as an additional impetus to realize their potential. In Ukraine, assistance is completely negated by the unprofessional and amateurish behavior of management.

[Anatoly Eliseev]

The more the Ministry of Defense and the generals with the United Russia government chew snot, the more infusions

[abc_alex]

Well, look: Azarov asked for a 100 billion ruble loan over 10 years to modernize Ukrainian production (including the Pipeline). NO ONE responded.
They spent 220 yards of their lives fighting the Russians in four years without any obligations. Even those who weren't asked.
And no references to "corruption under Yanukovych" stand up to scrutiny. Corruption in Ukraine today is simply all-encompassing.
So here's the true face of our "Western partners" and their true goals. Those who expected cooperation from them, let alone equal cooperation, are, to put it mildly, political idealists, or simply lying. The West is only interested in war with Russia. And it's only war that the West is willing to finance, even at a loss. Only war, and only our enemies.

[alexputnik17]

Total NATO spending on Ukraine, excluding the US contribution, has exceeded $237 billion since 2022. This is more than the planned military allocations for the European Union's seven-year budget (2028-2034).

And that's good news. Now we have to fast for seven years. Or print candy wrappers and descend into hyperinflation.
We just have to crawl away from these euros and dollars. They suck up raw materials and goods like a vacuum cleaner. And you can't live on paper.