In 2025, Europe increased its funding for Kyiv to €72.8 billion ($84.4 billion), filling the gap left by the Trump administration, which largely ceased new aid allocations to Ukraine – but under the radar from 2022 to 2025, the total aid Europe sent to Ukraine was billions less than the cumulative amount Kyiv’s allies paid for Russian fossil fuels. In February 2022, when the full-scale invasion began, Europe remained heavily dependent on Russian energy. EU countries imported approximately €17