How much has the US spent on Ukraine in the war?

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Trump says the U.S. has spent $350 billion on the war in Ukraine—a figure that is at odds with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s tally, as well as U.S.

government agencies and Western think tanks. The cost of the war has been at the center of negotiations over a mineral-rights deal that would compensate the U.S. for its wartime assistance.

Ukraine agreed to the deal after the U.S. dropped its demand for up to $500 billion in revenue from mineral development there, according to people close to negotiations. That far exceeds the value of aid provided by the U.S., according to Zelensky, who puts the figure at $100 billion.

Congress has voted through five bills appropriating a total of $175 billion for Ukraine in the three years since Russia’s invasion, according to a January report from the Congressional Research Service. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a research group in Germany, has calculated that about $120 billion of the appropriated funds have been allocated to programs that directly support Ukraine. Of that amount, the U.S.

has provided $67.3 billion in the form of weapons and other military assistance. Budget support—which helps Ukraine’s government pay the salaries of civilian government employees, healthcare workers and first responders—accounts for $49 billion. The remaining $3.6 billion was spent on humanitarian aid.

But a substantial portion of the $175 billion doesn’t directly support Ukraine. It pays for activities associated with the war, ranging from supporting a heightened U.S. force presence in Europe to responding to global food insecurity and assisting Ukrainian refugees in the U.S., according to the Kiel Institute.