Germany announces new aid package to Ukraine, including air defense systems and tanks

Ukraine will receive:

• 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles with spare parts and ammunition;
• 10 battle tanks LEOPARD 1 A5 with spare parts and ammunition;
• air defense system IRIS-T SLM;
• air defense system IRIS-T SLS;
• 3 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers;
• 21,000 rounds of 155 mm ammunition (from the Bundeswehr and industrial stocks);
• 1,000 rounds of tracer ammunition;
• 4 anti-drone systems;
• 2 BEAVER bridge-laying tanks with spare parts;
• 2 Dachs armored engineer vehicles with spare parts;
• 1 Bergepanzer 2 armored recovery vehicle with spare parts;
• 4 Wisent 1 mine clearing tanks with spare parts;
• 3 AMPS self-protection systems for helicopters;
• 100 night vision goggles;
• IT equipment;
• 16 Zetros tankers;
• 100 MK 556 rifles;
• 85 HLR 338 rifles and 180,000 rounds of ammunition;
• 100 CR 308 rifles;
• 4,000,000 rounds of firearms ammunition (from the Bundeswehr and industrial stocks);
• rescue boats;
• material for explosive ordnance disposal.

Military aid from Germany

Within the framework of the Security Capacity Building Initiative Fund, Germany allocated approximately €7.1 billion for military aid to Ukraine in 2024 alone. This amount includes Berlin's contributions to the European Peace Facility (EPF).

As of the end of May, the German government reported on the allocation of approximately 5 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine in 2023 and about €1.6 billion in 2022. An additional approximately €2.9 billion has been earmarked in the first two years of the full-scale war, supplies of which will not arrive until 2025-2028.

Germany has already supplied equipment from the stocks of its armed forces for approximately €5.2 billion euros (estimated cost to replace the transferred equipment). Also, more than 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers underwent military training in Germany, which cost approximately €282 million.