The UK has committed a total of GBP 21.8 billion in support to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, according to an updated government factsheet published on 12 May, covering military, non-military, humanitarian, and reconstruction assistance across a broad range of programmes.
The military commitment stands at £10.8 billion to date, with the government sustaining £3 billion a year in military aid until at least 2030-31. This year alone, the UK has committed over £600 million in air defence support, including £150 million for the NATO Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List.
The most recent Ukraine Capability Development Group meeting in April saw the UK announce its biggest ever drone package, committing to deliver at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine this year.
Over 62,000 Ukrainian personnel have been trained in the UK under Operation INTERFLEX. The UK-Ukraine Defence Industrial Support Treaty, signed in July 2024, expanded the range of military equipment that could be funded through £3.5 billion of export finance, enabling a £1.6 billion deal under which Thales is supplying 5,000 Lightweight Multirole Missiles manufactured in Belfast. Hundreds of those missiles were delivered five months ahead of schedule in October 2025.
On sanctions, the UK has now sanctioned over 3,200 individuals, entities, and ships under its Russia sanctions regime, including 595 vessels. In February 2026, the government imposed what it described as its largest Russia sanctions package since the early months of the war, targeting nearly 300 entities. Earlier this month, 35 individuals and entities involved in the production of Russian drones and networks exploiting migrants to support the war effort were also sanctioned. The government estimates that UK, US, and EU sanctions have denied Russia access to at least $450 billion since February 2022.
Non-military support totals over £5.3 billion, including up to £4.1 billion in fiscal support through World Bank loan guarantees and up to £1.2 billion in bilateral assistance. Humanitarian assistance committed since the invasion stands at up to £577 million, with at least £100 million committed in 2025-26 alone. The UK has also provided £15.15 million to HALO Trust for mine action, with demining efforts releasing over one million square metres of land.
On energy, the UK has committed over £490 million for energy security and resilience in Ukraine, including £173 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund. A loan guarantee of £181 million through UK Export Finance has enabled the supply of nuclear fuel from Urenco to help power Ukraine and reduce its dependence on Russian fuel.
The UK has provided £16.5 million to support Ukraine’s domestic war crimes investigations and an additional £2.3 million to the International Criminal Court. The government continues to support efforts to establish a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.
234,500 Ukrainians have arrived in the UK since the invasion, including 174,900 through the Homes for Ukraine scheme. The Ukraine Permission Extension scheme, which provides an additional 18 months permission for Ukrainians already in the UK, has had 133,519 applications granted, with the government subsequently announcing a further 24-month extension option, bringing the total potential stay under the scheme to three and a half years.
Meanwhile, the UK armed forces collapse through a lack of funding
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Yes some how with a £70 billion budget that’s now about to get a £18 billion boost over four years the force has collapsed.
Meanwhile it continues to deploy substantial naval presence in two oceans a major air component in the Middle East and a substantial forward army deployment in Baltic but yes other than that it’s a total collapse.
That’s some strong crack you’re smoking there 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jim, the substantial forward army commitment to the Baltic is only the core of one Battlegroup.
Come on Jim.
We all know the true state of the forces, we’ve been following it for 30 years. We are running a battle group in Estonia. Its hardly BAOR is it? 14 x 155mm tubes in the entire army!!!
Our navy is essentially down to a slack handfull of escorts.
One SSN active (1!!!!!)
Two carriers and we can’t afford a decent air wing between them, air wing we do have is also double hatted!
Our armed forces have never been weaker in centuries.
Hi Luke, defence is a relative basis. It can’t be compared to the past only to the threat environment and a compromise with Allie’s and competitors. Show me anyone who in a better state than we are.
Everyone is clambering up from a low base of peace time spending and an army that was sustained at too high a level for too long to fight colonial policing actions.
It’s little different to the 1930’s or early 1900’s. The US and France have near identical problems to us most other countries in Europe are worse off.
The presence is Estonia is a substantial forward deployment, it’s not the BAOR but then show me where the third shock army is.
My reference was to the term “collapse” used by the previous commentator. The forces is stretched, its depleted but the term collapse does not apply to it, it’s the usual doom mungering term perpetrated by the main stream media trying to generate click bate that too many in here lap up feeding the never ending “crisis” mentality.
This mentality is far more dangerous to our security than any temporary lack of frigates or 155mm guns and it’s why Russia spends so much money time and effort pushing the narrative.
Yes there’s no dichotomy between our own defence and supporting Ukraine, who are fighting our most dangerous adversary.
Supporting Ukraine IS our own defense, it’s the same thing not an either-or choice.
Of course. This government is the best at everything, and in terms of defense, it’s incredible.
Jim, there is no real additional funding. All of the recent uplift was to fund pay and NI increases – it was Opex, not Capex.
The uplift to 2.6% is achieved by including the security services in the MOD budget (admittedly allowed under NATO rules), not by increasing defence spending.
I read a story that older Ukr citizens who came on the scheme now get a UK state pension, and some have returned to Ukr and still claiming it.
The country is vast, I think they should be returned to work in their own industries and defend themselves.
It’s a corrupt country, and many will still be involved in crime.. For instance why is the Ukraine ” Starmer arsonist” here.? He’s a “model” but young enough to fight.
The Ru military is wrecked, but the Ukr won’t capture lost lands. Ukr will join the EU and be a defacto economic rival as well as potential trade export short term..long term their industry will outpace ours on labour costs.
I see this as now an EU problem.
In fact 2 of the arsonist are Ukr nationals and one a Ukr born Romanian.
What are we subsidising with tax money?
Don’t buy that argument, no nationality on earth would have 100% citizens all in agreement. You had it in the Second World War with SS units made up of volunteers from occupied countries, and as for us you could go back to a certain event during the reign of James I to prove that some people will act against their own demographic’s interest.
David your facts are wrong, suggest you read up before spreading such accusations from Russian propaganda . You require ten years of NI contributions to qualify.
No Ukraine refugee is claiming the uk basic state pension.
Pension credits would be given to all of that age range , pension credits tops it up to almost the full amount, hence why the 35 years of NI contributions is a joke. People who never work get it.
Dot gov website explains what Ukraine can get.
They are also entitled to housing benefit, healthcare, schooling
It’s time that the 234,000 were asked to leave and help rebuild their own country.
That would substantially remove pressure on housing and other services in the UK.
Carry on with support and industrial assistance, but our own needs are now important, that is the North Atlantic.
Hi David, you can’t claim pension credit as a non resident. Again I think you should apologise for your previous remarks, this is a serious business. You have shared false information which is be perpetrated by an enemy nation against an allied nation that is fighting for its right to exist.
You’re now trying to obfuscate your remarks by making further claims against Ukrainians
Suggest you so the honourable thing and just admit your were wrong. Happens to us all
Slave Ukraini 🫡🇬🇧🇺🇦
State pension, I don’t know, but my refugee got certain freebies my wife and I raised our eyes at, in addition to the standard free healthcare, travel, and other allowances from the council.
I know, I housed her and liaised with someone who facilitated their movement from UKR to my area. For a genuine refugee, not a problem.
Maybe not, but my “refugee” was claiming plenty else.🙄
Is it also Russian propaganda that they haven’t ordered a single ship, plane, or tank in two years and that the British Armed Forces can barely guarantee the country’s defense?
Do helicopters count as airplanes? Do self propelled guns count as tanks and do drones count as ships? Are orders important or delivers. The UK has had quite a few aircraft delivered in the past two years as well as tanks and a submarine. It’s about to start taking delivery of a lot of new ships ask well.
Tanks that don’t work and may be scrapped, a submarine that’s been tied up for over a year, a handful of aircraft ordered a decade ago. The first ships are at least 5 years away, the helicopters even longer.
Don’t I know it. I joined the “Homes for Ukraine” scheme to give a homeless refugee a chance. I got a madam who was effectively on holiday who was no more a refugee than I was a China man. She’d left her village on the far west polish border having got the visa. She left after a few months due to the lack of shower…..poor lamb, her hair….
You’d have thought a roof over the head, safety from bombs…..
Of course, the local Council blamed me when I told them of her behaviour and believed a list of greviences she had also concocted, including that I’d “forced her to live in a hotel room with windows shut.”
Infact, I’d asked her to close them when she went out, you know, thieves…..
Her English was better than she last on as she’d barely talk to me.
Good riddance, hope she’s back in Ukraine getting bombed. 🙏
To add the Visa system isn’t checked properly to assure those using it to come here are real refugees!
Now where have we seen THAT before?! 🙄
We had 1 video call before she came, we were hardly going to ask “where was your home before it was bombed” and she said ahe was in Kiev.
Turned out she was visiting her boyfriend, she was living on the Polish border.
Get back to Ukraine and help your country….though having seen how utterly selfish and self centred she was ( posing for photos of trips to Sweden, Canada, Israel SINCE the war started in 2022 ) no wonder mine did a runner.
Am I bitter? Yes, thoroughly pissed off and I’d not recommend it.
Real refugees from eastern Ukraine, elderly, those with children, more understandable.
You mean those obviously very wealthy fighting aged men driving around the city near me in Ukrainian registered Teslas and AMG G Wagons aren’t really ‘refugees’?
Ukrainian arrivals do not automatically receive the UK State Pension. As Jim says, you need at least 10 years of NI contributions to qualify for that, and 35 years for a full pension.
What older Ukrainians could access under the visa schemes was Pension Credit and other welfare support if they met the conditions. Ukrainians on these schemes were also given access to the wider benefits system, including things like Universal Credit, Housing Benefit, Child Benefit and disability related support.
However, Pension Credit and most of these benefits are tied to UK residency. If someone permanently returns to Ukraine, those benefits *should* stop because you cannot continue claiming them as a non resident.
In practice though, these systems rely heavily on claimants declaring changes in circumstances, including leaving the UK. The system also uses data matching and checks, but it is still not always immediate, so overpayments may only be identified later. We are hardly going after Ukrainians for benefit fraud, and although governments have been trying to crack down on this for years (not just in relation to Ukrainians), it is still an issue.
If those Ukrainian citizens are now drawing a UK pension, I think they’d be a bit too old to start fighting against Russia!
Best investment in defence in a longtime.
Ukraine is preventing ruzzia from going further into Europe.
Agreed.
The UK and other European countries are in essence spending their money defending their eastern border against Russia, at the same time degrading Russia generally.
Note too this morning the multiple Ukraine drones getting through into Moscow – something they could never even dreamed about doing two years ago.
Trouble is many Europesn countries sre not ftonting up and leaving it to othes to carry them. Spain, Italy and France fkr starters snd I suspect Hungary, Bulgaria, Romsnia, Greece etc. Uk does need imho to scale back a bit and fund HM armed forces a bit more. Europe has scads if cash.
Agree, the Ukrainians have put that twenty billion to far more use than the MoD ever could in fighting our enemies. More than that they have humiliated the UK defence establishment especially the army showing just what donkeys they are with their long drawn out procurement processes, staffing positions and jobs for the boys.
The UK is now regularly acquiring world leading capabilities with in one to two years from program start with beehive, storm shroud and rapid sentry being prime examples.
Just look at how the UK is getting ready to field Project Corvus this year as the watch keeper replacement and compare that with the last two iterations of the artillery spotting drones with Phoenix and watchkeeper being multi decade processes to acquire such a simple capability that resulted in massive cost overruns and delivery of outdated capabilities.
Beyond that we have seen that UK innovation is alive and well and better than ever. DSTL can get brimstone mounted on the back of a truck and knocking out Russia tanks in the space of a few days and turn ASRAAM into an highly effective ground based air defence system in a few months. On top of that we have a wealth of highly innovative drone and missile manufacturers popping out of start ups all over the country.
So Russia, that can’t beat down a country with little air power and no de facto navy, can invade Europe, but can’t advance more than a few years a week in Ukraine?
And yet Ukrainians will still bitch and whine that the west is still not doing enough. If they are tired of the death and destruction so much, they could always surrender
They made a nice punching bag so the rest of us in Europe could catch up on defence ( even though labour have dragged their feet constantly on that front)
What a nasty fuck you are
Love you too 😘
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Wow, you’re a real piece of shit, aren’t you.
I bet you’d make a nice punching bag.
Online tough guy 😂
Go volunteer for the Ukrainian army you badass, you’re clearly what they have been missing
Or more likely you’ll fill a body bag quite nicely, like the rest of Ukraine’s ever dwindling number of young men
Why don’t you volunteer for the Russian Army? They’re always looking for absolute cunts, you’ll fit right in!
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Umm a hard one, help them at our own Armies expense, run our selves in to ground, go with out, stop gap roles and equipment. Why ? i am sure many will shout at me but its wrong, we helped when we could but still not replaced any thing we gifted, nothing, We just do with out and bluff, AS90 its replacement still 2 years out, NLAW/Javlin, still not re stocked, 155 mm Ammo still not re stocked, Storm Shadow not re stocked, GMLRS we gave them all of them, we have two up dated ones thats itGMLRS ammo, not re stocked, its a long list help them but not help our own Army.
You can not rob one to fix the other, give kit away, give ammo away but at least replace it, not just leave it for a few years and do not much,
Didn’t the three MLRS we donated to Ukraine get replaced by three that were given to us by Norway ?
Was not three, and yes we gave them up graded B1 launchers, in return we got un up graded MLRS that had been in storage.
Yes the Norway launchers will be up graded to A2 standard in the next few years. We have Two newly up graded MLRS at the RSA none in Regiments
interesting, the MLRS on the annual report were counted at 35 for a number of years until 2024 when it jumped to 42, Showing that in 2025. Must be the B1version
As far as I know all the B1s were gifted to Ukraine, 64 MLRS where delivered, some converted REME vehicles. No idea of the current numbers,
The 2025 UK Armed Forces Equipment and Formations document say we have 43 on hand. So we must have those 43 units. It doesn’t break it down to which models though
True but I know 8 were converted to Reme vehicles, 2 have be up dated to A2 with 13 more waiting, After that I can not say how many there are as the numbers have changed since I served.
The remaining vehicles are as they were when delivered 30 years ago less for soft ware up dates and Bowman, and LRU up grades.
Due to expand t0 76 launchers ( though Labour dragging feet on final 15 ) and I think 9 support vehicles.
Handy, if they get delivered.
Their munitions, including ER and PRSM, are currently lost in the ether as well.
the numbers are still dragging somewhat and ours should be having an upgrade to B2. munitions, again , can we produce them our selves? it seems France and Germany can
worth every penny and more.
Memo to HMG, HMT and all UK political parties:
Pay attention to this figure and add to it the contributions of all other countries: that is the cost of fighting a war. Now start funding defence properly so we don’t have to. It’s a bargain, honestly.
Good news, the government is about to issue £18 billion in additional defence spending to meet all 62 recommendations in the strategic defence review. That’s on top of the annual increase of £10 billion that’s been applied over just three years.
That’s a lot of money in anyone’s book on top of vast spending increases across all NATO + with western Allie’s now spending more than the USA on defence in PPP terms.
Which government? The one we have now, or whichever one we will have when the spending comes into effect?
Half and half. The spending is over four years which will take it past the current parliamentary term but inside the usual grace period for a new government not to change spending plans (first two years)
That being said if Reform or the Greens come in and wish to cancel the increase in defence spending that will be their choice as the democratically elected representatives of the people of the United Kingdom.
All the current government can do is make the plans and set out the budget with in the normal process. It will be up to the people of Britain to decide if that’s what they want going forward.
£4.5Bn a year over 4 years = peanuts in real terms.
Just about enough to replenish empty warstocks and replace the LandRovers
I would be interested if you could share your analysis on that, the LMVP program has a £2 billion ten year costing. So you think we have a £16 billion in empty war stocks?
The cupboard is bare.
Not buying ammunition stocks year after year was a very expensive ‘in year saving’.
I seen that story, let’s wait and see if deeds follow warm wards, Governments say a lot but not so good at the doing bit. Hope I am wrong
Well, this thread has certainly brought out the russian sympathisers spewing out all their disinformation😒🤣
I’m glad we stepped forward and supported Ukraine. It’s money well spent💯
A shame we have otherwise sat on the side watching…
It’s not only the BIG government ££ that’s helping. The fundraising of multi-million pounds by ordinary people is directly helping the frontline more than anything
I’m Putin’s lieutenant, and I’m delighted that the British Armed Forces are on the verge of disarmament. That’s great.
Not really seeing “Russian sympathisers” in this thread, if I’m honest.
Most of the comments are either about UK defence spending levels, procurement delays, or disagreements over how support for Ukraine impacts domestic capability. You might disagree with some of the arguments, but that doesn’t automatically make them pro Russia or “disinformation”.
There’s a difference between criticising UK policy or expressing concern about military readiness, and actually repeating or supporting Russian state narratives. Those are not the same thing, and it’s probably better not to conflate them.
If you have an opposing opinion to someone, it’s better to challenge the argument directly rather than label people.
So you don’t see clunker staying that Ukraine should stop whinging and surrender to Russia if they don’t like being bombed as being sympathetic comments to Russia?
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You don’t see David making false claims that Ukrainians are claiming the state pension and living in Ukraine as being sympathetic to Russia either then?
You know this yourself, as you’ve already changed the wording from “Russian sympathiser” to “making sympathetic comments towards Russia” and “being sympathetic to Russia”. Those are not the same thing.
To me, a “Russian sympathiser” implies a pattern of behaviour or mindset, generally supporting Russia’s position or actions, consistently defending Russian narratives, or showing ideological alignment or repeated bias over time.
I don’t recall seeing any of David’s comments before, so I can’t say what angle he normally comes from. Does anyone genuinely think he’s a Russian sympathiser?
He made a comment about the state pension and I replied correcting that point, but he’s not wrong that some Ukrainians have permanently returned to Ukraine without declaring a change in circumstances and therefore continued receiving payments they were no longer entitled to.
I’ve been on and off this site commenting for about a year now (previously under the name Greg), but I’ve been reading the articles and comments here for over 10 years. I’ve read plenty from Clunker. He’s a bit rough around the edges with some of his comments, but have I ever seen evidence of him being a Russian sympathiser? No. He seems to care a great deal about the UK and our armed forces tbh.
So maybe stop running around like a little snitch looking to be offended, and carry on telling us all what a great job the government is doing on defence and how our armed forces are supposedly in perfect shape 👍
Well said, again.
And, no surprise, I agreed with “Greg” as well.
Well said.
Well said John
Thank you 👍
Memo to Rachael.
Dear Miss scary bloke type person.
I think I’ve found your Black Hole.
Love Harry the Halfwit.
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Don’t worry, Big Keir has just gone and stuffed Rachels black hole with £18 billion.
But I’m sure we will have the usual parade of ex generals on GB News and whingers telling us how it’s not enough and that we’r all doomed.
I blame the obvious failings of the war against Drugs being distributed freely on here.
What the Feck Is everyone taking today ? 🤔😁🤦♂️🤷♂️
It’s nothing like enough – the RAF alone has a pressing need for 24 fighters delivered last week as its Tranche 1 Typhoons went unreplaced to the great scrapyard in the sky.
Because we are spending £2.35Bn upgrading the ones we have left. Capability wins every time.
Horseshit – you can’t do more with less. A fighter can only be in one place at once.
And if your jets aren’t capable enough you will be told to stay at home. Its not 1945 anymore pal.
Ah right, where are these 5th Gen wunderwaffe they are expected to face off?
Most of the heavy lifting bombing Iran was 4th Gen jets even older than Typhoons
Seems a few on here are recovering from being at that bs Tommy Robinson rally in London yesterday. The I’m not racist, but…brigade.
Where you there, mate?
Plenty of normal people there happy to show their support for the UK, including friends of mine who shared photos.
Families, prams, children, Dogs dressed as Churchill. Iranians as well. Plenty of footage on SM if you care to look, including on my own FB page, which you yourself have access to.
That it’s all about Tommy Robinson, that every8be there is a far right thug, is typical Guardian, far left narrative mate. Shall I show you footage of
the blacks that were there in support or was that all fake footage?
Meanwhile, a few miles away, antifa were chanting for people to be hung from lampposts. Shall I send that footage on to you as well?
I have no doubt there were many good people at that rally. No doubt at all. But when it’s organised by someone like Tommy Robinson and his far right pals, then it undermines the message of all those good people who aren’t of his ilk. Good and bad on both sides. But the good message gets lost when he’s involved along with the Trump supporters who were there in numbers. Doesn’t matter if black or Asian people took part, when dickheads are leading at the front, the good work goes out of the window.
All true. But that fair comment of yours there isn’t the usual that appears. All is far right, all is racist, all is scum. Guardian headline on that march read that way, the left present it that way, the government present it that way. And your initial comment presented it that way, which is why I replied a bit more firmly than I would to you mate, sorry, as it’s a narrative happily spread that simply isn’t always true.
Tommy Robinson, yes, football hooligan racist thug, as far as I read, I’ve not met him to find out! Have you?
Have you met Nigel Farage? I have, apparently he’s a nazi….strange, I saw no sign of that when we talked.
Go on my FB account for the fun of it and see the photo of me with a UKIP bloke straight from the Taliban. It’s there in photos. The narrative, white skin headed thugs. The reality, no, this bloke was UKIP and wanted to leave the EU when that pic was taken.
Reform are all nazi and far right…again, strange, I see no sign of it in the families I met or forces vets sick to death at what’s happening to the country.
The agenda is they’re far right, and so it shall be. Black is black and white is white, except, it’s not, there is always an in-between, a middle ground, in everything.
Have a good one mate, again, sorry about that rant, but things need saying to balance and counter certain narratives, imcluding on here, and oh boy will I say it.
I don’t think Nigel or Reform are far right. And I’ve never said that. I think they are more right wing than the current Tory party, but no more than past Conservative govs. But I just think we need caution in thinking they can solve all our problems. We need to move away from extremes of left and right, they don’t serve anyone any good. We don’t need to go down the American route of division. The main parties need to recognise the anger that decent hard working people are feeling pissed. And need to start delivering, or more people will turn to parties that tap into that anger.
Not knocking the suport, but I am curious how much of that is actually new money trading hands. It talks about loan guarantees which isn’t, and clearly large stocks of existing military gear has been handed over and not replaced, so again not actual money moving hands.
At least a good part of the £3.5 billion export finance is finding it way back to the UK ( Which you would hope it would do) What it also seems to be say is direct military spending is £3 billion per year which isnt a huge amount ( but still hopefully not coming directly out of the MOD budget)