Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty ImagesFour years on and European support for Ukraine has been stretched and strained but remains broadly intact in a way many would not have predicted in those early weeks after Russia invaded in February 2022. All in, EU states together have provided about €200 billion to Ukraine. “Putin wanted a Russian Ukraine, he got a European Ukraine,” Sweden’s foreign minister, Maria Malmer Stenergard, said this week. European support for Ukraine has hardly been unlimited. Throughout the war Zelenskiy has complained of long delays between promised deliveries of weapons or air-defence missiles and the equipment actually arriving in Ukraine.

Source: The Irish Times February 26, 2026 01:31 UTC