$183 Billion

 

After the long and aggressive rhetoric of President Trump about the huge debt of Ukraine to the United States for military expenses, the figures announced by the Pentagon on Sunday morning, February 23, 2025, are already far from the $500 billion that Trump announced from the very beginning.  Moreover, it is not even $350 billion, as was said later.

 This morning, the Pentagon reported that approximately $183 billion was allocated to aid Ukraine.  At the same time, it is indicated that $65.9 billion was sent to Ukraine in the form of military aid, and $3.9 billion was sanctioned by Congress, and this amount remained unappropriated in the United States.

 Further, of the designated and announced $183 billion, about $58 billion was spent in the USA on the development of the US defense industry, either by replacing old weapons with new ones in warehouses, while the old ones went to Ukraine, and the new ones remained in the USA, or by direct investments in the American military industry.  The Voice of America writes about it all.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Ukrainian journalists that the total cost of the war since February 2022 was about $320 billion.

 "Of them, $120 billion is from us, the people of Ukraine, taxpayers, and $200 billion is from the United States and the European Union," Zelenskyy said.  - This is the cost of the weapon.  This is an arms package - $320 billion."

 Pay attention, the President of Ukraine is talking about the TOTAL financial efforts of the EU and the USA, which in Trump's presentation turned into exclusively the contribution of the USA, and what's more, already with higher figures.  And they still won't take it into account that the Biden administration helped Ukraine on the basis of non-refundable grants, which is also documented.  Such laws are not retroactive.  In fact, the Trump administration cannot demand anything at all from Ukraine.

^ The truth is never what Trump says it is. ^