The U.S. has provided Ukraine only half of the promised military aid, according to Reuters.

The volume of American military aid to Ukraine significantly slowed down during the final year of Joe Biden's presidency: by November, Washington had allocated only half of the promised assistance from its stockpiles of weapons to Kyiv.

Source. This is reported by Reuters citing American and Ukrainian sources.

Until September, supplies were averaging $558 million per month. Only from October 2024 to January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, did aid reach a figure of $1.1 billion each month. However, this does not represent an increase in support, as this was the level set during the first two years of the war.

By December 2024, the U.S. had delivered to Ukraine only about 30% of the promised armored vehicles, according to Reuters.

A year ago, in December 2023, Biden stated that the U.S. wanted "Ukraine to win the war." However, according to Reuters, the White House was concerned that this statement would create unrealistic expectations regarding Washington's willingness to assist Kyiv in reclaiming all territories seized by Russia since 2014.

Sources told the agency that throughout 2024, decisions regarding military aid to Ukraine were made with months of delays, not only due to issues in Congress, which took a long time to approve a $60 billion package, but also because of internal disagreements within the White House about escalation risks and whether sufficient weapon stockpiles would remain in the U.S.

The situation was further complicated by a poorly organized system for tracking the supply of weapons, where one agency did not understand what another was doing, the agency reported.

This continued until it was too late, notes Reuters. The acceleration of supplies in recent months by the Biden administration could no longer rectify the situation: the Armed Forces of Ukraine had lost all territories regained during the 2023 counteroffensive and complained about a lack of equipment for evacuating the wounded and delivering ammunition.

Meanwhile, the Russian army, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), was capturing an average of about 20 square kilometers daily.

As Reuters notes, with Trump's return to the White House, uncertainty about the continuation of arms supplies to Ukraine has increased. In the first week of his presidency, Trump froze aid to Kyiv along with other countries, but this did not affect military support.

According to him, the U.S. has spent $200 billion on supplying weapons to Ukraine – more than other NATO countries. In this context, Trump stated his intention to demand that Europe reimburse the U.S. nearly $200 billion for the ammunition sent to Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded by noting that Kyiv had received $76 billion in military aid from the U.S.

"When they say Ukraine received $200 billion to support the army and so on – that's not true. I don't know where all this money is. Maybe it's true in terms of how it looks on paper. <...> But as president, I will state – we received over $70 billion, 76 something," Zelensky said.

Background. Recall that The Atlantic previously covered this topic in the article “How Biden Created Chaos in Ukraine and Missed a Historic Opportunity to Defeat Putin.”