As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to travel to Paris on Monday, November 17, for his ninth visit since Russia invaded his country, military aid to Ukraine will be one of the main topics on the agenda. The end of American military support for Kyiv, stipulated by Donald Trump since his return to the White House, is putting enormous pressure on Europe. The relative transparency that prevailed at the start of the war regarding this assistance, with the help of arms lists, was lost, and the allies now began to organize themselves.
The first gray area concerns American support. Despite the Republican administration’s desire to end the system set up by Democrats under Joe Biden, aid reductions to Ukraine will be more gradual than announced. At a strict budgetary level, the amount of funds designated for Ukraine, provided for in the 2026 finance law, currently being debated in Congress, amounts to only 500 million dollars (or about 430 million euros). But several billion dollars, budgeted between 2022 and 2024, have not been spent, and a large number of weapons that have been ordered have not been delivered.
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