Denmark, Norway and Japan are partners of Ukraine that deserve separate attention.
These three states, by the amount of state assistance provided to Kyiv, top the list following the EU, USA, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Moreover, they were the first among other countries to implement long-term support programmes for Ukraine and supported the bilateral security agreements.
Denmark is the first country outside the G7 to have signed a bilateral Agreement on security cooperation and long-term support with Ukraine for 10 years.
It played a key role in unlocking the decision to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets and led the aviation coalition.
In the spring of 2023, Denmark transferred its 19 Caesar howitzers, recently acquired from the French Nexter, which became an important impetus for forming the artillery coalition.
Copenhagen has allocated 4.9 billion euros of financial support (besides funding through EU structures), of which military assistance amounts to 4.5 billion euros. As of today, Denmark has sent 16 packages of military assistance.
Denmark took patronage over Mykolaiv and Mykolaiv Oblast in the spring of 2023 and has since allocated several aid packages totaling $121 million for the region’s recovery.
Norway, in turn, participates in three important coalitions: the maritime, co-leading with the UK, the F-16 coalition (donates its aircraft and takes responsibility for training Ukrainian military); and the air defence (NASAMS systems successfully defend Ukrainian airspace).
It was one of the first to have introduced a multi-year support programme for Ukraine with $7.4 billion for 2023-2027 with an equal distribution of funds for military and civilian assistance to Ukraine.
This is the largest aid programme in Norway’s history for a country at war.
Norway’s revenues have sharply increased since European states gave up exporting Russian energy resources, purchasing more Norwegian oil and gas. Consequently, politicians and the public urge the government to increase assistance to Ukraine using the windfall profits, especially considering the delay and uncertainty of American aid.
The Norwegian government also allowed the direct sale of weapons and defence goods from its defence industry to Ukraine. The relevant changes came into effect on 1 January 2024.
Japan is one of the few Asian countries providing extraordinary assistance to Ukraine – financial, humanitarian and diplomatic.
When it was presiding over G7 last year, Tokyo became the main promoter of Ukraine on all group platforms and beyond, seeking to maintain maximum attention to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Japan’s efforts sharply contrast with the position of the Indian government, which significantly restricted discussions on the Russian-Ukrainian war at G20 venues during its chairmanship last year.
Japan’s assistance is mainly focused on financial and humanitarian spheres, significant support for Ukraine’s energy system (providing powerful autotransformers, energy equipment, gabions for protecting critical infrastructure), as well as urgent reconstruction issues (assistance to Irpin, Kherson, etc.).
However, its pacifist constitution prohibits military aid.
Nevertheless, the Japanese government made a decision that helped to send drones, body armour, helmets, winter clothing, binoculars, lighting equipment and other non-lethal equipment to the Ukrainian troops.
So, all three states have proven to be reliable partners for Ukraine and have lent a shoulder at a time when support from others was on halt.
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Shame on the US, Canada and Brazil. These three biggies harbor the largest ukrainian communities outside Ukraine, about 1.5 million each, totalling 4.5 million ukrainians. Yet their support is piSS poor! 😤
Brazil is no surprise, but yes shame on Canada, and I’m ashamed of the U.S. for it’s waffling, blocking, letting fear bind us, and the painfully aggravating drip, drip, trickle of support.
Maximum credit goes to Denmark.
Norway: could do better. They have a sovereign wealth fund of $1.5 trillion.
Why not invest in Ukraine’s mineral wealth?
They could easily afford to put in $100 billion and get a return too.
I’m not averse to the U.S. doing something similar. They made a big profit in WW2, so it’s not new. They got rich and bankrupted Britain. Result : we got a full-blown socialist govt in 1945 that wrecked the country. Maggie Thatch made some progress in reversing the socialist welfare state and then Tony Blair came along and put us back to Clem Atlee.
Thanks a lot for that! (Sarc).
The key thing is that Ukraine gets the help it needs. NOW. Some way somehow.
If the UK had lower taxes or lower taxation of foreign companies it could attract lots of investors i think. Sadly many Anglos are broke and rely on a welfare state.
After 14 years of Tory rule, the economy is in quite good nick. But unfortunately Boris was forced to sell the family silver to deal with the chicom bat virus. Scientific advisers tend to be socialists and their crappy advice forced Boris to put the country in debt and back into a socialist economy.
Now Labour are on the way back and we will once more be a minor player in the world. It was Labour in 1945 that created two gigantic Ponzi schemes: the NHS and the socialist welfare state, which weakened our economy but created shitloads of jobs for Labour-voting public sector workers; most of whom are bone idle.
We have given; thanks to Boris; £12 billion to Ukraine. To put that into context: we currently have only two carriers. They were built recently at a cost of £3.5 billion each. So, we could have built two more and still had £5 billion to spare if we had not helped Ukraine.
We give approximately half of one percent of our GDP to Ukraine. The US provides one third of one percent. Although it’s close to zero at the moment thanks to the putler wing of the GOP.
Norway, Denmark and the Balts are higher again.