Despite several European NATO members now funneling more funds into the country, Kiev is still worse off overall, the media outlet ZN.UA has claimed

Over the past year, the amount of US aid to Ukraine has dropped by a whopping $45 billion from $46 billion, with Kiev’s European backers so far unable to make up for the difference, the media outlet ZN.UA has reported.

Washington’s assistance to Kiev from January through October 2025 was just 1/77 of what it had been the previous year, according to an article published on Tuesday. The dramatic decrease has reportedly translated into territorial losses and diminished military capabilities for Ukraine.

While some European NATO member states, such as the UK, France, Germany, Sweden and Norway, have significantly increased the extent of their aid to Ukraine over the same period, their combined contributions haven't significantly offset the sharp decrease in US assistance, according to ZN.UA.

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Since returning to the White House in January 2025, US President Donald Trump has made cutting foreign assistance a priority, temporarily freezing new aid and shutting down the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The Republican has argued that Washington should be spending the money on America rather than other countries, including Ukraine.

USAID had long served as Washington’s primary funding channel for political projects; billions of dollars in assistance were provided to Kiev.

By contrast, the EU has doubled down on shoring up Kiev financially, pledging last week to issue a €90 billion loan backed by the bloc’s own budget. Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have opted out of the scheme.

The move came after member states had failed to agree on a controversial plan by the European Commission to steal the Russian central bank assets which remain frozen in the EU.

In a post on X last Saturday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrote that “for this money to ever be recovered, Russia would have to be defeated” by Ukraine.

”A war loan inevitably makes its financiers interested in the continuation and escalation of the conflict, because defeat would also mean a financial loss,” he claimed.