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How much cumulative US military aid has been delivered to Ukraine each year since 2014?
Executive summary
The publicly available sources in this set do not provide a complete year-by-year table of cumulative U.S. military aid to Ukraine dating back to 2014; however, several official summaries give cumulative totals for two reference periods: about $69.7 billion of U.S. military assistance "since Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014" (U.S. State Department) and roughly $66.5–66.9 billion "since the full‑scale invasion" on February 24, 2022 (U.S. State Department / Defense fact sheets) [1] [2] [3]. Available sources do not mention an annual breakdown for each year from 2014 through 2025 in the provided documents.
1. Why a year‑by‑year breakdown is hard to produce from these sources
None of the items provided here publish a neat, consistent annual ledger of "military aid delivered by year." The U.S. State Department and Department of Defense fact sheets report cumulative amounts for broad periods (since 2014; since Feb 24, 2022) but do not list deliveries by calendar year in the excerpts supplied [1] [2]. Congressional and research overviews (CRS, Stimson, Commons Library) describe programmatic shifts and totals over multi‑year spans but the search results supplied do not include a per‑year disbursement table [4] [5] [6].
2. What the official cumulative numbers say
The State Department’s “U.S. Security Cooperation with Ukraine” page reports “$66.9 billion in military assistance since Russia launched its full‑scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and approximately $69.7 billion in military assistance since Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014” [1]. Defense Department materials and other summaries cite similar full‑scale‑invasion totals—e.g., “more than $66.5 billion in security assistance” [2]—and independent summaries echo a roughly $66.5–66.9 billion range for 2022–2025 plus the larger ~ $69.7 billion figure when earlier (2014–2021) aid is included [2] [3].
3. What counts as "military aid" — definitions and reporting differences
Different sources use different definitions. State and Defense fact sheets count security assistance packages, presidential drawdowns, and DoD transfers; Congressional Research Service notes a mix of lethal and non‑lethal items and training programs since 2014 [4] [1]. Think‑tank and watchdog sources (Stimson, Commons Library) emphasize that reporting practices vary by agency and over time, complicating apples‑to‑apples year‑by‑year accounting [6] [5].
4. Known inflection points that shape totals
Reporting and policy milestones explain why cumulative figures jump: the U.S. shifted from largely non‑lethal assistance after 2014 to lethal assistance starting in 2017 and dramatically expanded transfers after Russia’s February 2022 full‑scale invasion, driving most of the ~ $66.5–66.9 billion figure attributed to 2022–2025 [4] [2] [3]. Official reporting also notes repeated use of Presidential Drawdown Authority to move items from DoD stocks [1].
5. How reporters and analysts reconstruct annual flows (and their limits)
Analysts typically combine State/DoD fact sheets, Congress.gov/CRS reports, appropriation bills, and oversight databases (e.g., ForeignAssistance.gov or UkraineOversight) to estimate year‑by‑year flows; the Commons Library and CSIS use those sources to describe programmatic changes, but the pieces provided here do not contain a consolidated annual ledger [5] [7] [8] [9]. Where such year‑by‑year tables exist elsewhere, they are assembled from multiple agency releases and budget documents rather than a single authoritative public table.
6. Two practical next steps to get the annual numbers you want
If you want a true calendar‑year breakdown from 2014 onward, consult the primary datasets and reports the analysts use: (a) the State Department and DoD incremental fact sheets/announcements (searchable on State/DoD sites), (b) the ForeignAssistance.gov database/UkraineOversight.gov oversight reports, and (c) CRS or Commons Library briefs that compile appropriations and drawdowns; the current set of search results points you toward those sources but does not itself include a year‑by‑year table [1] [8] [9] [4] [5].
Limitations: this analysis uses only the documents and snippets you provided; the supplied sources give reliable cumulative totals but do not include the detailed annual disbursement table you requested [1] [2]. If you want, I can next: (A) attempt to compile an annual estimate by extracting and aggregating announced packages and DoD drawdown dates from the State/DoD/CRS archives referenced here, or (B) point you to the exact databases and reports (ForeignAssistance.gov, UkraineOversight, CRS briefs) to query for year‑by‑year figures.