Leber said Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition and its international partners will be relying on part of the support for the government in Kyiv being funded from profits generated by immobilised Russian central-bank assets.
Germany will continue to support Ukraine in its defence against Russia’s invasion for as long as necessary, according to a spokesman for the finance ministry in Berlin.
The spokesman, Fabian Leber, 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.
