US President Donald Trump says most of it was provided by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n
Since the beginning of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the United States has provided Kyiv with billions of dollars in military assistance, much of it delivered during former President Joe Biden\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump is now complaining that those weapons and ammunition were transferred free of charge.<\/p>\n
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He says Europe should have covered the cost and that the US will be asking for the money back.<\/p>\n
Funding Ukraine\u2019s defence against Russia has been a thorny issue in US-European relations.<\/p>\n
With no end in sight to the fighting, can the two sides reach common ground and keep supporting Kyiv?<\/p>\n
Presenter<\/strong>: Scott McLean<\/p>\n Guests<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Doug Bandow \u2013 Senior fellow at the Cato Institute<\/p>\n Marina Miron \u2013 Researcher in defence studies at King\u2019s College London<\/p>\n Charles Kupchan \u2013 Senior fellow and director of European Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations<\/p>\n Published On 4 Sep 20264 Sep 2026<\/p>\n Share Will Europe pay the US to provide military aid to Ukraine? on social media<\/p>\n share-nodes<\/p>\n googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump says most of it was provided by the Biden administration. Since the beginning of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1186834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[32,2000,299,5187,2597,12,285,332,7661,10471,10472,657,49,1116],"class_list":["post-1186833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-military","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-show-types","tag-tv-shows","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-weapons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117215330651076462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1186834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}