Aid flows to Ukraine shifted significantly in March and April 2025. While the United States allocated no new aid during this period, European countries increased their support. As a result, Europe has, for the first time since June 2022, surpassed the U.S. in total military aid, totaling EUR 72 billion compared to EUR 65 billion from the U.S. However, the increase has not been evenly distributed across Europe. Countries such as the Nordics and the United Kingdom have markedly stepped up their aid, while others, such as Germany, have maintained more moderate levels. These are among the key findings from the latest update of the Ukraine Support Tracker, which includes data through April 2025.
Humanitarian should absolutely be included, but I haven’t seen Ireland being that high on that either compared to the Nordic countries.
We have increased our population by about 2-2.5% by taking in refugees from the war since 2022. That figure is between 10 and twice as much as other western countries. We have taken in over 112,000 people into a country with a popupation of around 5 million. We have a housing and resource crisis. Ukraine did not cause any of these crises to note, the politicians did, but we took them in despite the challeneges faced such as the increased cost of living and housing issues.
Norway has a similar population, but we’ve only taken in 79000.
OK that’s a lot.