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according to qilu yidian, cctv reporters recently learned that the german government has decided to suspend new military aid to ukraine within the framework of its spending cuts plan. this decision was made after the ruling coalition of the social democratic party (spd), the green party and the free democratic party (fdp) reached a final consensus on spending cuts and passed the 2025 budget draft agreement. according to the draft, germany's aid to ukraine will be halved to 4 billion euros to give priority to other domestic spending needs. since this year's aid budget to ukraine has been fully used up and next year's aid plan has exceeded the budget, this means that the german government will not be able to provide additional new aid to ukraine.

according to reports, the funding ban has officially come into effect. for ukraine, the situation may deteriorate further in the near future because germany's aid funds for ukraine this year have been fully planned, and the aid budget ceiling for 2025 is 4 billion euros, but the amount of aid that has been approved has obviously exceeded this limit. germany plans to provide ukraine with 3 billion euros in military aid in 2026, while the annual allocations for 2027 and 2028 are only 500 million euros, less than one-tenth of this year's plan. germany's future aid funds will not suddenly decrease significantly, but these funds will no longer be borne by the german finances.

germany has been an important country in europe providing military support to ukraine in the past, so its decision is undoubtedly bad news for ukraine. in the future, ukraine may only be able to rely on the billions of dollars in interest each year from the eu's freeze on russian assets to make a living. german finance minister lindner said when the cabinet passed the draft budget in mid-july that ukraine will have to rely more on funds from other "european sources" as well as frozen russian assets. however, it is not clear when these funds will be available, or whether they will arrive as scheduled.