Policy paper

UK support to Ukraine: factsheet

Updated 30 May 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 £18 billion for Ukraine:

• £13 billion in military support (including our £2.26 billion ERA Loan contribution)
• £5 billion in non-military support  

Diplomacy

• the UK, alongside France, is leading efforts to build a ‘Coalition of the Willing’ to defend any peace deal and 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)

• both leaders announced the intention to restart our bilateral Strategic Dialogue this year. The inaugural meetings took place in 2021

• 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 will not deter our steadfast support for Ukraine. This included the 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:

  • the Foreign Secretary spoke at the Reinforced Permanent Council to set out our continued support for Ukraine (24 February 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 4 reports since February 2022
• we use the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to show UK support for the IAEA’s efforts towards nuclear safety 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

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 now been disbursed to Ukraine, with the second £752 million payment having been made on 14 April 2025

• the UK therefore expects to provide £4.5 billion in support of Ukraine this year – more than in any previous year (16 January 2025)

• we have sent around 400 different capabilities to Ukraine, with packages including drones, tanks, boats, air defence systems, munitions and lightweight multirole missiles. We are contributing £350 million to a new £450 million package of military support, which will support repairs and maintenance as well as funding radar systems, anti-tank mines and hundreds of thousands of drones (11 April 2025)

• 30,000 new attack and surveillance drones will be delivered to Ukraine via the UK and Latvia-led drone coalition (9 January 2025). £7.5 million was invested by the UK (19 November 2024)

• 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 through £3.5 billion of UK Export Finance-guaranteed loans (signed on 19 July 2024). A new deal worth £1.6 billion will see Thales supply 5,000 lightweight multirole missiles manufactured in Belfast (2 March 2025)

• we have trained over 54,000 Ukrainian personnel in the UK under Operation INTERFLEX and the training scheme has been extended until at least the end of 2025

• as part of Operation INTERFLEX, we will train 180 Ukrainian soldiers to be combat mental resilience practitioners on the frontlines in 2025 – nearly double the 100 trained in 2024 (28 December 2024)

• a £20 million uplift in funding supports wounded Ukrainian troops through the UK’s Project Renovator. The project has been repairing and upgrading a military rehabilitation hospital in Ukraine and providing training to Ukrainian surgeons, doctors and nurses (24 February 2025)

• we administer the International Fund for Ukraine to procure military equipment: over £1.5 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 £5 billion. This includes:
  • £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
  • £977 million committed in bilateral assistance to the end of the financial year 2024 to 2025. We committed £282 million in bilateral assistance in 2024 to 2025, to fund humanitarian, energy, stabilisation, reform, recovery and reconstruction programmes

Humanitarian

• the UK provided over £120 million in humanitarian assistance in 2024 to 2025, bringing our total humanitarian contribution to over £477 million for Ukraine and the region from the start of the full-scale invasion to the end of the financial year 2024 to 2025

• almost £25 million in new funding will support local Ukrainian organisations to protect the most vulnerable who continue to suffer from Russia’s ongoing aggression (9 May 2025)

• we have provided £8.6 million to HALO Trust for demining 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 supported the clearance of over 511,000 square metres of land (May 2022 to March 2025)

Recovery and reconstruction

• the UK co-hosted the London Ukraine Recovery Conference in 2023, raising over $60 billion

• 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

• UK Export Finance has committed £3.5 billion of financial support for critical reconstruction, energy and defence 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 intend to provide up to £30 million in finance  (11 September 2024)

• our Good Governance Fund for Ukraine, a £38 million 3-year technical assistance programme, counters corruption and supports reform

• a new £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 £400 million for energy security and resilience in Ukraine through grant, in-kind support and loan guarantees

• as part of this, we have committed £84 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund to support repairs, protection and power generation

• our most recent commitment to the UESF was made by the Prime Minister, when he announced £20 million to support emergency energy needs (17 December 2024)

• this builds on the £20 million to support essential repairs and protection to the power network (announced 11 September 2024)

• UK Export Finance has concluded negotiations to provide £181 million of support to pay Urenco to supply enriched uranium to help power Ukraine and maintain its independence from Russian fuel (18 July 2024)

• 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 2,500 individuals, entities and ships under the Russia sanctions regime, over 2,300 of which have been sanctioned since Putin’s full-scale invasion

• UK, US and EU sanctions have deprived Russia of over $450 billion in revenue since February 2022, equivalent to around 3 more years of funding for the invasion

• the UK has now sanctioned over 250 ships for transporting Russian energy. According to some estimates, sanctions against the shadow fleet by the UK and our partners have already collectively crippled it with 200 ships sidelined – that’s almost half of its overall capacity (46%)

• Russian oil revenues were down 27% in 2024 (January to November) compared to the same period in 2022

• this government has imposed sanctions against:

  • 100 targets across Russian energy and financial services sectors, the Russian military industrial complex and its third country suppliers, and malign actors involved in democratic interference and Russia’s information war on Ukraine (20 May 2025)

  • 110 more oil tankers – the largest package of sanctions against the shadow fleet (9 May 2025)

  • over 100 targets, including 40 oil tankers aiding Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine and Russia’s military supply chains – our largest package of sanctions in over 2 years (24 February 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 March 2025, our overall contribution stands at £11.3 million

• we have also given an additional £2.3 million to the International Criminal Court

• the Foreign Secretary endorsed the draft legal texts to establish a Special Tribunal on the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine under the framework of the Council of Europe (9 May 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 are supporting Ukraine’s efforts to establish a Claims Commission for Ukraine that would assess the claims submitted under the Register of Damage. We are a member of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee and took part in the second round of negotiations in May (12 to 15 May 2025)

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 military aid and insurance through the UK-developed Unity facility has supported the Black Sea maritime corridor and enabled Ukraine to keep exporting its goods.  Ukraine is on track to export all of its 2024 harvest – 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

• 223,400 Ukrainians have arrived in the UK, including 164,700 through Homes for Ukraine (as of 31 March 2025)

• the Ukraine Permission Extension (UPE) scheme opened on 4 February 2025 and provides an additional 18 months permission and a continuation of the same rights and entitlements for Ukrainians in the UK on the Ukraine schemes. 6,637 UPE applications have been granted (as of 31 March 2025)

Contact: fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk