German government is planning a massive expansion of military aid for Ukraine.This sum is to be more than doubled in 2023 to more than 5.4 billion euros .In the coming years, another 8.8 billion euros are to be made available for so-called “commitment appropriation”(translation in comments)
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Ukraine is also to benefit massively from military aid from Germany in the coming years. Many billions of euros are at stake.
The German government is planning a massive expansion of military aid to Ukraine. This emerges from an internal report of the Ministry of Finance, which was first reported on Monday by the “Spiegel”.
In the current budget year, Berlin has earmarked 2.2 billion euros for the “upgrading of partner states in the field of security, defense and stabilization.” With this, the federal government is financing the delivery of weapons to Ukraine, but also the reordering of weapons systems to replace the weapons that have been surrendered.
Military aid to Ukraine to be doubled this year
This sum is to be more than doubled as early as 2023, reaching more than 5.4 billion euros by the end of the year, the report says. In the coming years, another 8.8 billion euros are then to be made available for so-called “commitment appropriations.” According to the “Spiegel” report, one billion had previously been earmarked for this purpose.
On Tuesday, the budget holders of the Bundestag are to be informed about the purpose of the budget increases – in other words, what is to be purchased for Ukraine with the additional money.
Ministry wants to purchase tracked vehicles and artillery
In the previously secret paper, the Finance Ministry justifies the increased need for money: “Due to the high material losses of the Ukrainian armed forces, new material supplies are required,” it says. “In order to provide the Ukrainian Armed Forces with sustainable equipment in line with their needs, numerous procurement contracts must be concluded without delay, which will create payment obligations for future budget years as well.”
Above all, the weapons systems to be procured include “air defense, tracked armored vehicles, ammunition supplies for the weapons systems supplied by Germany, and artillery.”
The additional spending is “objectively imperative,” the document says, “since without continued support to Ukraine there is a serious risk that Ukraine will succumb in its defensive struggle against the Russian aggressor, with unforeseeable consequences for the European peace order.”
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