Germany will have to limit its military aid to Ukraine because the current budget does not provide any new money for this purpose, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper reported, citing a letter from German Finance Minister Christian Lindner to top defense official Boris Pistorius and top diplomat Annalena Baerbock, Paralel.Az reports citing TASS.

According to the newspaper, this is due to austerity measures by the chancellor's office and the finance ministry. Military equipment that has already been approved will continue to be delivered to Kiev, but additional requests from the Defense Ministry will no longer be supported at the request of Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The newspaper pointed out that the blockage has already taken effect. For Ukraine, the situation is likely to worsen soon, as planned military support is expected to nearly halve next year and fall to less than one-tenth of the current amount in 2027.

However, Finance Minister Christian Lindner does not expect a drastic reduction in funding for Ukraine. In his opinion, in the future, the money will no longer come from the federal budget, but from frozen Russian assets. According to the newspaper, Lindner expects that Ukraine will be able to "cover a significant part of its military needs" with this money. If this is successful, Berlin's financing of Kiev would no longer be necessary for a while. But the decision of the G7 countries is far from being implemented and is legally questionable, the newspaper emphasized.