The Sum of All Fears: Trump will announce a U.S.arms embargo on Ukraine,

[Emrys]

47. You've just been corrected once on spreading misinformation. Prepare to be corrected again.

The $250+ billion you've cited is plain propaganda, and doesn't belong on this forum.

How much has the US given to Ukraine?
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Has the United States spent $300-$350bn on Ukraine aid?

President Trump has made this claim on a number of occasions - including when he hosted France's President Macron in the White House this week.

Short answer: Figures suggest the actual spend is much lower.

BBC Verify can find no evidence to back up the claim. There are different calculations on US spending in or related to Ukraine - and they produce a much lower figure.



The Kiel Institute is a German-based think tank tracking support going into Ukraine. It calculated that the United States spent $119.7bn (£94.3bn) on aid between January 2022 and December 2024.

Others have reached a higher figure - but with a broader definition of what counts as spending on Ukraine.

The US Department of Defense has provided a figure looking at all spending on Operation Atlantic Resolve - a response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

It says $182.8bn has been "appropriated" - a figure that covers US military training in Europe and replenishment of US defence stocks.

Either way, both figures are considerably lower than claimed by the president.

We asked the White House about the basis for the $350bn claim. So far, it hasn't provided an explanation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crew8y7pwd5o

Even of that US spending figure, a large proportion of it never left the US, either because it was calculated on the replacement cost of antiquated materiel that was sent to Ukraine, because it was spent in US factories to produce armaments, or it's plain never been delivered despite being allocated, and if Trump has his way, quite possibly will never make it to the war zone.

The very recent article from BBC Verify quoted above continues, giving a more detailed analysis of spending on Ukraine. Here's a comparison of the US's spending with that of European countries and countries elsewhere in the world.