According to Der Spiegel, deliveries to Kiev are carried out either free of charge, or are carried out through the previously created European Peace Fund
BERLIN, September 22. /tass/. The military assistance provided to Ukraine since the beginning of the special military operation of the Russian Federation has already cost Germany about €5.2 billion. Der Spiegel magazine writes about this with reference to the response of the German Ministry of Finance at its disposal to the corresponding request of the Bundestag deputy from the Left Party Sevim Dagdelen.
According to him, deliveries to Kiev are carried out either free of charge, or are carried out through the previously created European Peace Fund. "Multibillion-dollar gifts to extremely corrupt Ukraine are being made at the expense of taxpayers in Germany," Dagdelen quotes the publication as saying. She stressed that the German government should "invest in a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine, as well as in the education and healthcare system in this country, instead of spending more and more money on a senseless war of attrition."
The publication indicates that the German Defense Ministry spent about €1.63 billion in fiscal year 2022 on bilateral support of Ukraine with "military materials as part of material donations or supplies from industrial stocks." "At the moment, in fiscal year 2023, about €2.886 billion has been allocated for these services," the text says. To this are added "military materials worth about €620 million," as well as "services such as administrative assistance, transportation of the wounded, training and the like worth about €55 million."
Earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated that, based on the decisions taken, a total of up to €17 billion will be spent on arms supplies to Ukraine by 2027. In turn, the head of the German Defense Ministry, Boris Pistorius, said in an interview with Bild newspaper that Germany will allocate a new package of assistance to Ukraine totaling € 400 million, which will, among other things, include ammunition. On August 23, in a video message to the participants of the Crimean Platform forum, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said that her country had provided Ukraine with more than €22 billion in aid since the beginning of the current conflict: from tents and generators to tanks and the latest air defense systems. Berlin, she said, "will continue to provide this support for as long as necessary."
Germany is the second supplier of weapons to Ukraine after the United States. Now Kiev wants to get long-range Taurus missiles, but the authorities in Berlin are in no hurry to make a decision on this issue.
