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This is how Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action of Germany Katarina Reiche explained the decision about the new tranche ahead of winter.
Germany will provide Ukraine with another 250 million euros to support the energy sector ahead of a difficult autumn-winter season. The funds will be routed through the state development bank KfW to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund to finance urgent repair work, Deutsche Welle reports.
"Ukraine continues to suffer serious Russian strikes against the population and civilian infrastructure. Energy supply remains one of the front lines of this war," said Germany's Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Katarina Reiche.
From the fund, which international donors have been replenishing since February 2022, Ukraine finances the purchase of spare parts and equipment to restore destroyed energy infrastructure. After the new tranche, the total amount of Germany's assistance to the Fund since 2022 reached approximately 810 million euros, the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action of Germany clarified.
Ukraine's Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal confirmed receipt of the tranche. According to him, Germany's total contribution amounts to 807 million euros.
According to Shmyhal, since the beginning of 2026 the Fund has received about 507 million euros from the countries of the so-called energy coalition. At the end of June, the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, the European Commission, and the Secretariat of the Energy Community jointly urged donors to urgently raise another 650 million euros by winter. Even after the German tranche, the Fund still lacks 561,5 million euros, the minister said.
In the summer and early autumn of 2026, the Fund also received aid from other countries:
Sweden transferred 126 million euros.
Norway allocated 43 million euros, and later another 44,6 million euros.
Iceland provided 550 thousand euros.
Estonia transferred 125 thousand euros, and later another 55,5 thousand euros together with Spain.
Italy allocated 10 million euros.
Luxembourg transferred 8 million euros, after which the country’s total contribution rose to 30 million euros.
The European Union provided 20 million euros. The EU's total contribution to the Fund reached 279 million euros.
Australia did not send money but equipment: more than 250 transformers for the Kharkiv region worth at least 1,2 million euros.
In total, over four years more than 1,95 billion euros have passed through the Fund from 39 donors from 26 countries and three international organizations.
The Ukraine Energy Support Fund had already raised over 2 billion euros before today's German tranche. Germany is its largest donor: already at the end of 2025 the Berlin contribution reached 550 million euros.
But money is still lacking. According to estimates by the Ministry of Energy and the European Commission, the Fund needs more than half a billion euros to fully cover needs ahead of winter. Overall, to prepare regions for the heating season 2026/2027, 3,5 billion euros are still missing.
The situation is further complicated by Russia, which has already officially announced a new wave of strikes on energy infrastructure. At the same time, in some regions the readiness of energy facilities for the cold, by local estimates, does not exceed half of what was planned.
For more on what energy workers managed to do over the summer and what they definitely will not have time to prepare for the cold, see the ZN.UA article "What energy workers managed to do over the summer and what they definitely will not have time to do before the cold" by journalist Vladyslav Obukh.
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