<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe total amount of Western aid to Kiev added up to \u20ac165 billion ($185.6 billion) by early summer 2023, according to data from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW). Some of Kiev\u2019s Western backers shouldered additional costs due to the need to accommodate refugees coming from Ukraine, the IfW reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poland, which spent 0.6% of its GDP on bilateral aid to Ukraine, had to spend another 2.2% on Ukrainian refugees, according to the data. The accumulated costs of helping Ukraine exceeded 2% of GDP in Latvia and Estonia as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week, the Pentagon announced another security assistance package for Ukraine worth $400 million, including air defense and anti-tank missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kiev\u2019s constant need for more aid from the West has led to tension between Ukraine and its Western backers. Ahead of the July NATO summit in Vilnius, Zelensky lashed out at the US-led military bloc on social media, blasting its \u201cindecisiveness\u201d<\/em> on Kiev\u2019s membership bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told journalists on the sidelines of the summit that the allies \u201cwant to see gratitude\u201d<\/em> from Ukraine for the military assistance that has been provided. He also noted that he told Ukrainian officials during a visit to Kiev last year that Western nations \u201care not Amazon.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kiev will need more assistance from its Western backers until the conflict with Russia ends, the Ukrainian president has said The assistance provided by the US and its allies to Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia is not enough, President Vladimir Zelensky told Brazil\u2019s Globo News broadcaster in an interview last week. \u201cAs long as… Read More »\u2018Nothing is enough\u2019 for Ukraine \u2013 Zelensky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,1079,7,49,97,151,214,517,684],"tags":[3003,3980,9150,1084,8046,570,3592,4915,4571,8378,7642,1499,2944,6128,270,10,310,4079,7985,664,7361,5052,1460,2670,5933,516,1613,6013,8642,5330],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/nothing-is2.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54446,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54444\/revisions\/54446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}