Chancellor Scholz affirms Berlin as Kyiv's leading supporter
Germany remains Ukraine's strongest supporter in Europe, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on X on Aug. 19, commenting on recent media reports about the alleged reduction of aid to the war-torn Ukraine.
He clarified that Berlin will continue its support, in particular by providing a €50 billion ($55.4 billion) loan alongside the G7 countries.
“This will allow Ukraine to procure weapons on a massive scale,” he wrote.
This follows an earlier report by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper on Aug. 17, that Germany's updated 2025 budget draft does not include increased military aid to Ukraine and that new defense budget requests have been rejected due to strict limits set by Scholz and the Finance Ministry.
On the same day, Germany's Finance Ministry responded to a request from Ukraine's public broadcaster Suspilne stating that future bilateral aid to Kyiv would partly shift to international programs.
Previously approved aid to Ukraine will be delivered, but no new requests will be considered, according to an Aug. 5 letter from Finance Minister Christian Lindner to Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.
Germany allocatted a new military aid package for Ukraine on Aug. 19, including the IRIS-T air defense system, among other military equipment.
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