The EU Council approved more aid for Kiev and further sanctions against Moscow yesterday. Next year, Kiev will get €18 billion to finance its budget and guarantee state functions, wages, pensions etc. This year already they’ve gotten €20 billion.
A Dec. 12 report in Foreign Policy exposed the fact that money for Ukraine is being taken out of funds allocated to fight hunger in the world. “More than 300 million people, half of them children, are in desperate need of aid in some of the world’s poorest and most conflict-ridden regions. But they seem to have been deprioritized since Russia’s Ukraine invasion,” described Foreign Policy. Among the traditional donors that chopped foreign aid in order to help Ukraine are Denmark, Sweden and the U.K. Denmark’s spending on Ukrainians has reportedly been diverted from its 50 million crowns intended for Mali and 100 million crowns intended for Bangladesh. Sweden reallocated over 4.5 billion Swedish crowns to pay for refugee reception within Sweden. The U.K. has reduced aid and spent a large chunk of it to house Ukrainians, and so on. (https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/12/ukraine-is-crowding-out-the-worlds-foreign-aid/ )
