Germany Pushes Back Against Concerns of Waning Ukraine Aid
- Pledge stands to continue backing Kyiv as long as necessary
- Government responds to report that budget issues would hit aid
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Germany will continue to support Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion for as long as necessary, following concerns that budget issues will cause one of Kyiv’s biggest backers to pull back.
“We are still standing shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine,” Fabian Leber, a finance ministry spokesman, said in Berlin on Monday. He was responding to a weekend report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper that said spending constraints mean that financing for additional aid for Ukraine — on top of what has already been earmarked — won’t be available from the federal budget.