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Two years after the start of the war, the strength of Western support for Kyiv is losing momentum: new aid has dropped in the period from August 2023 to January 2024 compared to the same period of ‘last year, according to the latest news from the Kiel Institute, published in February 2024. And this trend may continue, the United States Senate is struggling to help, and the European Union (EU) has had all the difficulty in having the aid of 50 billion received on February 1, 2024, from the ban Hungarian. Please note, these two aid packages have not yet been taken into account in the latest estimate made by the Kiel Institute, which ends in January 2024.

Data from the German Institute shows that the number of donors is decreasing and is concentrated around the center of countries: the United States, Germany, the countries of northern and eastern Europe, which promise both aid high cost and advanced weapons. In total, from February 2022, the countries that support kyiv have committed at least 276 billion euros on the military, financial or humanitarian level.

In absolute terms, the wealthiest countries have been the most generous. The United States is the leading donor, with more than 75 billion euros in declared aid, including 46.3 billion in military aid. The European Union countries announced both aid (64.86 billion euros) and joint aid from the European Union (93.25 billion euros), for a total of 158.1 euros.

When we factor these contributions into the gross domestic product (GDP) of each donor country, the situation changes. The United States has fallen to the war zone (0.32% of its GDP), well behind the countries near Ukraine or former friendly Soviet republics. Estonia takes the lead in aid in relation to GDP with 3.55%, followed by Denmark (2.41%) and Norway (1.72%). The rest of the top 5 is completed by Lithuania (1.54%) and Latvia (1.15%). The three Baltic states, which all share borders with Russia or its ally Belarus, have been among the most generous donors since the beginning of the conflict.

In terms of percentage of GDP, France is seventh-quarter, has done with 0.07% of its GDP, just behind Greece (0.09%). The aid provided by Paris has been in constant decline since the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine – France is twenty-fourth in April 2023, and thirteenth in the summer of 2022.