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War in Ukraine
The arms and military equipment Germany is sending to Ukraine
Germany provides support for Ukraine by supplying equipment and weapons, these come from supplies of the Federal Arms Forces and from deliveries from industry financed from the Federal Government’s funds for security capacity building. An overview.
Here is an overview of the military assistance provided to Ukraine by the Federal Republic of Germany. The assistance services consist of two strands: on the one hand there are financial resources from the Federal Government’s security capacity building initiative, which are used to finance arms deliveries and other industrial materials. On the other hand, materials are being provided from the Federal Armed Forces’ supplies. Military aid worth around 28 billion euros has by now been made available by Germany or been earmarked for supporting Ukraine over the next few years.
The funds from the Federal Government’s security capacity building initiative amount to around 7.1 billion euros for 2024 alone. The German contributions to the European Union’s European Peace Facility (EPF) come from this initiative, too. EU member states can receive reimbursement for expenditure for military assistance for Ukraine from the EPC. So far, Germany has received around 31 million euros worth of compensation from the EPF. Furthermore, there are commitment appropriations 1 for the next few years. These are currently worth about 6 billion euros.
Around 5 billion euros (2023) and 1.6 billion euros (2022) have already been spent on military assistance for Ukraine. Another 2.9 billion euros were earmarked in the first two years of the war for deliveries to be made between 2025 and 2028.
Since the start of the Russian war of aggression on 24 February 2022, Germany has provided around 5.2 billion euros worth of materials from the Federal Armed Forces’ supplies to Ukraine. In addition, more than 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers received military training in Germany. These training costs amount to about 282 million euros to date. Further expenditure, which we are not going to put a figure on here, was incurred for treating injured Ukrainian soldiers.
One consequence of the annuality principle is that a distinction is made between expenditure authorisation and commitment appropriations (see §3 (1) of the Federal Budget Code BHO). Expenditure authorisation empowers the administration to effect expenditure in the respective budget year. Commitment appropriations (§16, §38 BHO) on the other hand, enable the administration to commit to expenditure in future budget years. Commitment appropriations are a tool that provides for the necessary parliamentary legitimation in this context, and they safeguard parliamentary budgetary rights with regard to the existing financial burden on future budgets owing to commitments made.
Delivered military support to Ukraine:
(Changes compared to the previous update in bold)
Armoured fighting vehicles
10 All Terrain Tracked CarrierWarthog (command vehicle)* (before: 9)
ammunition for LEOPARD 2 A6 (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks*)
5 All Terrain Tracked Carrier Warthog (repair and recovery vehicle)*
1 load-handling trucks 8x6 with 7 roll of containers*
2 tractors and 4 trailers*
10 protected vehicles*
Combat Readiness and Survivability
4,015 assault rifles MK 556*
7.75 million rounds of ammunition for fire arms*
8,000 anti-tank mines PARM*
385 precision rifles HLR 338 with 9.9m rounds ammunition*
16,000 man-portable anti-tank weapons*
2 dental sterilizers
164,000 rounds ammunition 40mm for grenade launchers*
continuing deliveries of medical material*
* Deliveries from industry stocks financed by German funds for security capacity building. Some of the deliveries require upgrades or productions is ongoing; also training measures take place.