Guidance

UK support to Ukraine: factsheet

Updated 24 July 2026

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 £25 billion for Ukraine:

• £16 billion in military support (including our £2.26 billion ERA Loan contribution)
• up to £5.6 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 Coalition of the Willing nations’ efforts to support Ukraine’s future security. The former Prime Minister joined over twenty-four other Coalition of the Willing leaders in Paris and announced the UK’s participation in the €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan initiative (13 July 2026)

• the former Prime Minister met E5 leaders in Berlin (24 June 2026) where they reaffirmed commitments made by E3 leaders and Ukraine (7 June 2026)
• the UK, France, and Ukraine signed a Declaration of Intent relating to the deployment of multinational forces to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire (6 January 2026)
• 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)
• British Embassy Kyiv hosted a policy forum to mark the first-year anniversary of the 100 Year Partnership and demonstrate our ambition across political, defence, innovation and recovery pillars (16 January 2026)
• the former 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 former Prime Minister hosted President Zelenskyy in London to conclude the first year of the Strategic Dialogue, recognising progress across all 8 pillars and identify strategic priorities for the year ahead (17 March 2026)
• the UK has supported UNGA resolutions condemning:
  • Russia’s forcible deportation of Ukrainian children: 3 December 2025
  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: 24 February 2026, 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
• we use the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as a forum to hold Russia accountable:
  • Minister Doughty reaffirmed the UK’s continued support for Ukraine at a Reinforced Permanent Council on 24 February 2026 to mark four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion
  • 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 the militarisation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children via the OSCE’s formal fact-finding missions (known as the Moscow Mechanism), having published 6 reports since February 2022
• we support the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) efforts to strengthen nuclear safety and security in Ukraine, particularly at Ukraine’s ZNPP (Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant). We hold Russia directly accountable for the nuclear safety and security challenges Ukraine now faces, including those resulting from Russia’s missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid. We supported the 5 March 2026 resolution at the Board of Governors (5 March 2026)

Military

• to date, the UK has committed £16 billion in military support for Ukraine since the invasion, which includes our contribution of £2.26 billion to the G7 ‘Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration’ Loan for Ukraine, to be repaid using profits generated by seized Russian assets. 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)
• last year, the UK spent an unprecedented £4.5 billion in support of Ukraine (16 January 2025). This year the UK has committed an additional £3bn of military support and combined with the third and final instalment of the Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration Loan, will spend a total of £3.75 billion on military support for Ukraine
• we have committed over £600 million in air defence support, including £150 million for the NATO Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List to protect Ukraine against Russia’s attacks against energy infrastructure and homes (27 March 2026)
• we will deliver 150,000 drones and 350 air defence missiles by the end of the year (18 June 2026)
• 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)
• a new UK-Ukraine agreement to share battlefield technology will boost UK drone production for Ukraine (23 June 2025)
• we have trained over 63,000 Ukrainian personnel in the UK under Operation INTERFLEX 
• we administer the International Fund for Ukraine to procure military equipment: over £2.7 billion has been pledged to the International Fund for Ukraine to date

Non-military

• the UK’s non-military commitments to Ukraine since the start of the invasion come to over £5.6 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 £1.5 billion committed in bilateral assistance, including a nearly £290 million bilateral assistance package for 2026 to 2027, announced at the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2026 to fund energy security and recovery programmes

Humanitarian

• the UK is one of Ukraine’s leading bilateral donors and has committed up to £577 million in humanitarian assistance for Ukraine and the region since the start of the full-scale invasion (12 September 2025)
  • a commitment of £5.7 million to provide humanitarian aid to frontline communities (24 February 2026)
  • 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 £15.15 million to HALO Trust for mine action, including a £2.25 million contract extension this year, to support their work in Ukraine, with Mines Advisory Group and Ukrainian Deminers Association as downstream partners. Our demining efforts have released over 1,131,304 sqm of land and provided Explosive Ordnance Risk Education to 134,491 beneficiaries (June 2022 to end March 2026)

Recovery and reconstruction

• our contributions to the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), part of the World Bank group, and to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), continue to expand critical war risk insurance cover, boosting trade and 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 deliver up to £65 million for renewable energy and the banking sector in Ukraine (25 June 2026)
• up to £12 million for a new Governance Programme, which will support efforts on rule of law, justice and anti-corruption (25 June 2026)
• 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 £750 million for energy security and resilience in Ukraine through grant, in-kind support and loan guarantees
• as part of this, we have committed £173 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund to support repairs, protection and power generation
• this includes £87 million in energy support announced since September to support repairs and replacement of power generation infrastructure and put in place critical protection (24 February 2026, 16 January 2026, 12 November 2025 and 12 September 2025)
• a further £1 million in support of Ukraine’s Green Transition Office was confirmed at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in July 2025, and a further £700,000 was announced at URC26 (25 June 2026)
• we have committed £17 million for a second round of the UK’s Innovate Ukraine Green Energy Competition, bringing our total investment to £34 million. This will support UK and Ukrainian innovators to help rebuild a greener and more resilient energy grid (9 December 2025)
• we have provided UK Export Finance loan guarantees to secure nuclear fuel for Ukraine, including a £181 million guarantee in 2024 and a further £210 million deal announced in June 2026 for Urenco to supply nuclear fuel to Energoatom for the next two years (15 June 2026)

Sanctions

• the UK has sanctioned over 3,400 individuals, entities and ships under the Russia sanctions regime, over 3,200 of which have been sanctioned since Putin’s full-scale invasion
• the UK is able to interdict Shadow Fleet vessels, allowing the British military to board sanctioned ships transiting UK waters (25 March 2026). The UK, for the first time, successfully intercepted a Russian Shadow Fleet vessel in the English Channel (14 June 2026)
• as of July 2026, the UK has specified over 600 vessels under the Russia sanctions regime, including over 580 oil tankers
• 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
• between October 2024 and September 2025, UK imports from and exports to Russia of all goods dropped by 98.1% and 97.5% compared to 2021
• this government has imposed sanctions against:
  • 24 individuals and entities behind destructive cyber and hybrid operations (13 July 2026). This is the first joint sanctions package with the EU
  • UK sanctions Russians developing chemical weapons used to kill Alexei Navalny and Dawn Sturgess (6 July 2026)
  • 70 new sanctions targeting Russia’s Shadow Fleet, military procurement supply chains, and illicit finance networks (16 June 2026)
  • Crypto and illicit finance networks exploited by Russia to circumvent UK sanctions (26 May 2026)
  • nearly 300 targets, including critical energy revenues and military equipment suppliers. This is the largest Russia sanctions package since the early months of 2022 (24 February 2026)

War crimes and justice

• the UK has provided £16.5 million to support Ukraine’s domestic war crimes investigations
• with our EU and US partners, we established the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group to coordinate our collective technical assistance and capacity building support for Ukraine’s efforts to document, investigate and prosecute atrocity crimes
• we have committed more than £4 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 20,000 additional children since the beginning of September
• we supported the resolution establishing the Operating Model of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression which was adopted on 15 May, paving the way to hold those responsible for Russia’s war to account
• 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 signed the Council of Europe Convention on the Establishment of an International Claims Commission for Ukraine (16 December 2025)

Trade

• the UK-Ukraine Digital Trade Agreement has 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
• the Ukraine Reconstruction Project Development Programme is a pilot programme set up by DBT to fund feasibility and scoping studies by British businesses for major reconstruction projects (1 July 2026)
• 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 extended until 31 March 2028) (19 January 2026)

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

Ukrainians in the UK

• 237,200 Ukrainians have arrived in the UK, including 177,600 through Homes for Ukraine (as of 31 March 2026)
• 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. 147,186 UPE applications have been granted (as of 31 March 2026)
• the Government recently extended the UPE scheme by an additional 24 months. This means individuals coming to the end of their initial 18 months’ permission under UPE can apply for a further 24 months under the scheme, totalling 3.5 years under UPE
• the application window for UPE applications has also increased from 28-days to 90-days before an applicant’s current permission expires
• 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

Culture

• the UK has contributed over £2.5 million for the protection of Ukrainian cultural heritage across various projects. These include two donations to the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Fund (UCHF), as well as donations of emergency conservation materials to Ukrainian museums
• the Government has supplied funding for the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE)-led Heritage Crime Task Force in Ukraine
• the Government has funded Historic England for a programme to provide cultural heritage professionals with support as they work to ensure heritage is protected, preserved, and restored
• the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) and the Ministry of Culture for the Government of Ukraine together initiated a Cultural Commission in March 2026. This project provides a forum for collaboration, information exchange, and cultural celebration, and is one of the deliverables under the UK-Ukraine 100-Year Partnership. The British Council and Ukrainian Institute are core members

Contact: fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk