Germany is proposing to allocate an additional €100 million to restore Ukraine’s water supply, energy and transport infrastructure, as well as to strengthen its resilience following an intensification of Russian attacks.
This is stated in a letter from the German Federal Ministry of Finance to parliament’s budget committee, Reuters reports.
The funds will supplement assistance for Ukraine already included in Germany’s 2026 budget and will cover damage from large-scale aerial bombardments, which Russia has stepped up since the summer. The German Finance Ministry notes that the need arose unexpectedly, as it was impossible to foresee such an intensity of strikes when the budget was adopted.
The money will be used to purchase equipment for decentralised electricity generation and storage, repair water supply and energy networks, procure firefighting equipment, and restore school buildings. The letter stresses that shelling since the start of the invasion has destroyed 80% of Ukraine’s generation capacity, and that October’s attacks led to power cuts in more than a third of Ukraine’s regions.
- In September, the German government allocated €250 million to the Energy Support Fund.