With 70.7 billion euros, the United States remains by far the largest donor.
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The United States may be the largest provider of aid to Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian invasion, but former Soviet states and ex-Soviet satellite states are among Kiev’s most generous lenders.
Here are the latest figures on global aid to Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees:
– US first, Germany second –
The United States remains by far the largest donor with €70.7 billion in military, financial and humanitarian aid pledged to Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and May 31, 2023, according to figures released Thursday by Germany-based Kiel Institute for the World Economy .
The second largest is Germany with €18.01 billion (€10.68 billion in bilateral aid and €7.33 billion via the European Union). The United Kingdom is in third place with 10.74 billion euros.
Outside of Europe and the US, the largest donor is Japan, which pledged €6.62 billion to Ukraine during the first 15 months of the war.
– Baltic’s Most Generous –
Their contributions may seem paltry compared to the US, but the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania allocate a much larger share of their gross domestic product to the former Soviet nation of Ukraine.
Their aid pledges between February 2022 and May 2023 amount to 1.26 percent, 1.09 percent and 0.95 percent of their GDP, respectively, compared to 0.33 percent for the US, the Kiel Institute’s aid tracker showed.
Poland and Slovakia, both of which border Ukraine, round out the top five most generous countries, with 0.68 percent and 0.63 percent of their GDP respectively.
Poland was the first to supply Ukraine with tanks in the spring of 2022, in the form of hundreds of Soviet-era vehicles, and this year sent some of its supplies of state-of-the-art German-made Leopard 2 tanks.
– Hungary holds back –
However, not all of Ukraine’s neighbors have been so generous.
Russia’s ally Hungary, which has avoided criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin over the invasion, provides only 0.03 percent of its GDP between February 2022 and May 2023.
And in Slovakia, many citizens are resisting the generosity of the government.
Populist pro-Russian former prime minister Robert Fico, whose party is running strong in the run-up to the September election, has led the charge and accuses Bratislava of being kept under wraps by Washington.
– Germany and Poland host the most refugees –
Among Ukraine’s allies, Germany and Poland have hosted the most refugees, 1.07 million and 995,000 respectively so far. The Czech Republic is next with 346,000, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR.
Montenegro is the most hospitable on a per-capita basis, with the 38,540 refugees on its territory representing more than 6.1 percent of the population.
Ukrainian refugees make up three percent of the population of Estonia, Moldova and the Czech Republic and more than two percent of those in Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Latvia.
The influx of refugees has sparked resentment in some countries.
In Estonia, the far-right EKRE party came second in parliamentary elections in early March, calling for the government to stop admitting Ukrainian refugees.
France is the EU country that takes in the fewest Ukrainian refugees (0.11 percent of the population).
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