In brief
The funding will support basic needs and energy and water supplies as winter approaches. Germany’s government cited intensified Russian attacks on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure.
The German Bundestag’s budget committee approved an additional €200 million in short-term winter assistance for Ukraine on November 13, Novynarnia reported, citing European Pravda’s account of a joint statement from two German ministries.
The Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development are allocating the funding. Germany’s government said Ukraine urgently needed additional support to meet basic needs and sustain energy and water supplies amid intensified Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure.
Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said the humanitarian assistance would support families in need, access to heating and drinking water, and medical services. Development Minister Reem Alabali Radovan described support for Ukraine as a contribution to European security. The report said the development ministry’s crisis fund finances electricity, heating and water supplies, schools and kindergartens, agriculture and disaster relief.
The approval does not establish that Ukraine has received the money. Novynarnia’s report did not specify a transfer timetable, how the €200 million would be divided between the ministries, or amounts for individual areas of assistance.
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