In 2025, the United Nations will spend more than $2.6 billion to help Ukrainians. The money will be used to provide the population with drinking water, demining territories, restoring destroyed housing, building shelters, business development and other programs.

This was reported in the government after a meeting between Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal and UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi. The head of government noted that the specified amount was approved in the UN Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan in Ukraine for 2025.

Topics discussed included existing and new support programs. In particular, questions were raised:.

“We expect that all assistance programs for Ukrainians will continue, and we also count on the significant contribution of the UN to the humanitarian demining of Ukraine this year, in particular, through the creation of new programs and projects,” Szmigal said.

The Prime Minister thanked the UN for humanitarian programs aimed at supporting displaced people and getting through the winter period, implemented jointly with the Government of Ukraine. In particular, the UN envisaged raising $492 million for this heating season, and in total in 2024, 8.5 million Ukrainians were covered by various types of assistance from the UN.

As already reported, during the entire period of full-scale Russian aggression, Ukraine raised more than $115 billion. preferential external financing - an average of $3.4 billion. per month. This allowed us to set aside more than $47.5 billion.

and ensure economic stability throughout 2025.

In 2024, the largest volume of external funding to the state budget of Ukraine was provided by the EU Ukraine Facility program - 16.2 billion. euros (or $17.3 billion. This became possible thanks to the transitional and unconditional financing provided for in the program for 2024, as well as the successful implementation of the “beacons” laid down in the plan during the second and third quarters of last year.