Policy paper

UK support to Ukraine: factsheet

Updated 23 December 2025

Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine poses a serious threat to UK prosperity and security. We are proud to be a leading partner in providing vital support to Ukraine.

In total, the UK has committed up to £21.8 billion for Ukraine:

• £13 billion in military support (including our £2.26 billion ERA Loan contribution)
• up to £5.3 billion in non-military support (including bilateral assistance and fiscal guarantees) 
• £3.5 billion cover limit in export finance (via UK Export Finance for reconstruction and defence projects)  

Diplomacy

• the UK, alongside France, is jointly leading the Coalition of the Willing nations to support Ukraine’s future security
• the UK-Ukraine 100 Year Partnership is fostering broader and closer collaboration across 9 key pillars, including defence and security, science and technology, and economy and trade (signed at leader-level on 16 January 2025)
• the Foreign Secretary welcomed Foreign Minister Sybiha to London for the UK-Ukraine Strategic Dialogue, where they discussed foreign and security policy priorities for the year ahead (13 November 2025)
• the UK has supported UNGA resolutions condemning:
  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: 24 February 2025, 23 February 2023 and 2 March 2022
  • Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure, including nuclear facilities: 24 July 2024
  • Russia’s attempted illegal annexation of 4 eastern Ukrainian regions: 12 October 2022
• we regularly use the UN Security Council to condemn Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and reaffirm that Russian disinformation, false accusations and violations of UNSC resolutions and the UN Charter, in addition to wider attempts to undermine the multilateral system, will not deter our steadfast support for Ukraine. This included the then Foreign Secretary using the UK’s November 2024 Council Presidency to mark 1,000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and reiterate the importance for the world of Putin failing
• we use the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as a forum to hold Russia accountable:
  • Minister Doughty reaffirmed our continued support for Ukraine and called our Russia for its actions at the Ministerial Council (3 to 5 December 2025)
  • UK representatives sit across the table from the Russian delegation to deliver interventions every week, calling out malign Russian behaviour, combatting disinformation and isolating it diplomatically
  • we have supported the OSCE’s Support Programme for Ukraine financially and highlighted Russian human rights abuses in Ukraine via the OSCE’s formal fact-finding missions (known as the Moscow Mechanism), which have published 5 reports since February 2022
• we use the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to show UK support for the IAEA’s efforts towards nuclear safety and security in Ukraine, particularly at ZNPP (Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant). We hold Russia directly accountable for the nuclear safety and security challenges Ukraine now faces, including from Russia’s missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid. We joined 56 countries in a joint statement to the IAEA Board of Governors expressing concern at the nuclear safety and security implications of repeated attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure (21 November 2025)

Military

• to date, the UK has committed £10.8 billion in military support for Ukraine since the invasion and we will sustain £3 billion a year in military aid until 2030 to 2031 and for as long as it takes (announced on 10 July 2024)
• we are contributing £2.26 billion to the G7 ‘Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration’ Loans for Ukraine, to be repaid using profits generated by seized Russian assets. Two thirds of the UK’s contribution has been disbursed to Ukraine (14 April 2025)
• the UK therefore expects to provide £4.5 billion in support of Ukraine in 2025 – more than in any previous year (16 January 2025)
• we have invested £600 million in air-defence capabilities in 2025, providing critical help to Ukrainians as they defend their towns, cities and energy infrastructure from Russia’s barbaric attacks (17 December 2025)
• we have delivered over 85,000 military drones in just 6 months and have invested £600 million to accelerate production (14 October 2025)
• £70 million from our ERA Loan contribution will fund 350 ASRAAM air defence missiles (25 June 2025)
• Ukraine has received a new rapidly-developed bespoke air defence system called Gravehawk, jointly funded by the UK and Denmark. Two prototypes of the air defence capability system were tested in Ukraine in September, and a further 15 will follow this year (16 January 2025)
• our UK-Ukraine Defence Industrial Support Treaty expanded the range of military equipment that could be funded by drawing on £3.5 billion of export finance (signed on 19 July 2024). This has enabled a deal worth £1.6 billion that will see Thales supply 5,000 lightweight multirole missiles manufactured in Belfast (10 July 2025). Hundreds of these LMMs have now been delivered five months ahead of schedule (10 October 2025)
• a new UK-Ukraine agreement to share battlefield technology will boost UK drone production for Ukraine (23 June 2025)
• we have trained over 62,000 Ukrainian personnel in the UK under Operation INTERFLEX with £247 million invested in training this year (4 June 2025). The training scheme has been extended until at least the end of 2026 (24 August 2025)
• we administer the International Fund for Ukraine to procure military equipment: over £2.1 billion has been pledged to the International Fund for Ukraine to date, including new contracts worth £30 million for Anduril UK to supply cutting-edge drones (6 March 2025)

Non-military

• the UK’s non-military commitments to Ukraine since the start of the invasion come to over £5.3 billion. This includes:
  • up to £4.1 billion in fiscal support through World Bank loan guarantees to bolster Ukraine’s economic stability and support vital public services. This includes a multi-year commitment announced at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in 2023
  • up to £1.2 billion committed in bilateral assistance, including up to £283 million in bilateral assistance in 2025 to 2026, to fund humanitarian, energy, stabilisation, reform, recovery and reconstruction programmes

Humanitarian

• the UK is one of Ukraine’s leading bilateral donors and has committed over £577 million in humanitarian assistance for Ukraine and the region since the start of the full-scale invasion (12 September 2025)
• we have committed at least £100 million in humanitarian assistance in 2025 to 2026, from which £10 million has been allocated to the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund and £8 million for targeted winter assistance (3 December 2025 and 12 November 2025)
• since the full-scale invasion, we have provided £8.6 million to HALO Trust for mine action and we have extended HALO Trust’s contract for 2025 to 2026, providing a further £4.3 million to support their work in Ukraine. Our demining efforts have cleared over 772,808 square metres of land and provided Explosive Ordnance Risk Education to 118,086 beneficiaries (May 2022 to end September 2025)

Recovery and reconstruction

• war risk insurance is being provided through the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), part of the World Bank group, and through the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to boost inward investment into Ukraine
• our £3.5 billion cover limit in export finance via UK Export Finance has supported critical reconstruction projects in Ukraine. This support has already enabled the reconstruction of 6 key bridges in the Kyiv region and the delivery of mine countermeasure vessels
• through our development finance institution, British International Investment (BII), we are working in partnership with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to make trade finance available to support critical imports and exports to and from Ukraine.  BII will provide €30 million for MHP, a leading Ukrainian agribusiness, to safeguard jobs and boost resilience in the food and agriculture sectors (10 July 2025)
• up to £10.5 million for the Governance Reform Programme will support efforts on rule of law, justice and anti-corruption (10 July 2025)
• a £25 million social recovery programme will support Ukraine to build more inclusive and efficient social protection systems and revitalise community and family-based services (7 February 2025)
• a £50 million economic recovery programme will unlock hundreds of millions of pounds worth of private lending to bolster the growth and resilience of small and medium businesses in Ukraine (£40 million announced 12 January 2025, £10 million boost announced 5 February 2025)

Energy

• overall, the UK has committed over £450 million for energy security and resilience in Ukraine through grant, in-kind support and loan guarantees
• as part of this, we have committed £133 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund to support repairs, protection and power generation
• this includes £47 million in energy support announced since September to support repairs and replacement of power generation infrastructure and put in place critical protection (12 September 2025 and 12 November 2025)
• a further £1 million in support of Ukraine’s Green Transition Office was confirmed at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in July 2025
• we have committed £17 million for a second round of the UK’s Innovate Ukraine Green Energy Competition, bringing our total investment to £33 million. This will support UK and Ukrainian innovators to help rebuild a greener and more resilient energy grid (5 February 2025)

Sanctions

• the UK has sanctioned over 2,900 individuals, entities and ships under the Russia sanctions regime, over 2,700 of which have been sanctioned since Putin’s full-scale invasion
• we have now sanctioned over 545 vessels forming part of Russia’s ‘Shadow Fleet’ transporting Russian energy in violation of the Oil Price Cap
• with the EU, we are lowering the crude Oil Price Cap from $60 a barrel to $47.60, directly hitting Russia’s oil revenues, which have already fallen 35% year-on-year to May (18 July 2025)
• UK, US and EU sanctions have denied Russia access to at least $450 billion since February 2022. By one estimate that’s equivalent to around 2 more years of funding for the invasion
• there was a 99.6% drop in UK goods imports from Russia in 2024 compared to 2021
• this government has imposed sanctions against:
  • 24 more targets across the Russian oil, military and financial sectors. This includes Russia’s largest remaining unsanctioned oil companies, following the targeting of Russia’s 2 largest oil producers, Rosneft and Lukoil, in October (18 December 2025 and 15 October 2025)
  • 7 entities and individuals for their role in destabilising Ukraine (9 December 2025)
  • the GRU in its entirety, as well as 11 actors behind Russian-state-sponsored hostile activity (4 December 2025)

War crimes and justice

• the UK announced £4.5 million of new funding to support Ukraine’s domestic war crimes investigations (29 December 2024). As of July 2025, our overall contribution stands at £11.5 million
• we have also given an additional £2.3 million to the International Criminal Court
• we have committed more than £2.8 million to support Ukrainian efforts to facilitate the return and reintegration of children forcibly deported by Russia, including a pilot tracing mechanism which has identified over 600 additional children since the beginning of September
• we continue to support efforts to establish a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. We welcome the signing of the bilateral agreement between Ukraine and the Council of Europe (25 June 2025), and Ukraine’s subsequent ratification of the agreement (15 July 2025)
• we are a founding member and Chair of the Conference of Participants of the Register of Damage for Ukraine, which allows Ukrainians to record losses, injury or damage as a result of the war
• we have signed the Council of Europe Convention on the Establishment of an International Claims Commission for Ukraine (16 December 2025). This will assess the claims submitted under the Register of Damage and pave the way for potential future compensation pay outs to those who have suffered loss, injury or damage as a result of Russia’s invasion

Trade

• the UK-Ukraine Digital Trade Agreement entered into force facilitating duty-free digital content trade (1 September 2024)
• the UK-Ukraine TechBridge delivers projects in mutual trade, investment, innovation research and digital skills development
• our City-Ukraine Hub leverages UK expertise to deliver capacity building projects
• our provision of military equipment to deter attacks  and insurance through the UK-developed Unity facility has supported the Black Sea maritime corridor and enabled Ukraine to keep exporting its goods.  Ukraine exported all of its 2023 and 2024 harvests – crucial for global food security and Ukraine’s economy
• UK-Ukraine Political, Free Trade and Strategic Partnership Agreement enables UK businesses to benefit from tariff free trade on all goods until 31 March 2029 (tariffs on eggs and poultry removed until 31 March 2026) (8 February 2024)

For further information visit the Department for Business and Trade’s Ukraine page.

Ukrainians in the UK

• 229,900 Ukrainians have arrived in the UK, including 170,400 through Homes for Ukraine (as of 30 September 2025)
• the Ukraine Permission Extension (UPE) scheme opened on 4 February 2025 providing an additional 18 months permission and a continuation of the same rights and entitlements for Ukrainians in the UK on the Ukraine schemes. 110,792 UPE applications have been granted (as of 30 September 2025)
• the Government announced on 1 September 2025 that the UPE scheme will be extended by an additional 24 months. This means individuals coming to the end of their initial 18 months’ permission under UPE will be able to apply for a further 24 months under the scheme, totalling 3.5 years under UPE
• English language and employment support is being provided by the UK government-funded STEP programme, a free, 12 or 24 weeks virtual programme open to all Ukrainians living in the UK on one of the humanitarian UK visa schemes

Contact: fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk