WSJ: Europe To Compensate Ukraine For Loss Of US Aid

But there's an important nuance.

Ukraine has increased the development and use of its own drones and missiles following the cutoff of arms supplies from the United States. Meanwhile, Europe has also stepped up, but things are not as rosy as they might seem, according to The Wall Street Journal.

A new report from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy shows that U.S. aid to Ukraine has been cut by 99 percent in 2025. However, the analysts said Europe has "dramatically" increased its overall support over the past year to "offset a significant portion of the decline in U.S. allocations."

Specifically, European military aid increased 67% in 2025, compared to the average between 2022 and 2024.

The Trump administration remains willing to sell weapons, even if it will no longer provide them for free. According to the institute, NATO countries without the U.S. have purchased more than $4.3 billion worth of American weapons for Ukraine.

"Yet even with growing European support last year, military allocations from all partners around the world to Ukraine were 4 percent below the 2022 level, "which had previously been the lowest annual total since the war began...Ukraine has particularly felt the U.S. absence in the form of a shortage of Patriot interceptors, which are its primary defense against Russian ballistic missiles," the article said.

Although Europe is doing more for Ukraine, however, Vladimir Putin will not end the war until the costs outweigh the benefits. And that will still require more U.S. weapons and sanctions pressure to cut funding for his war machine, the WSJ points out.

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