Poland spent 2% of GDP on aid to Ukraine

Poland has provided Ukraine with aid that amounts to 2 percent of its GDP, the country’s finance minister Magdalena Rzeczkowska has said.

The scene of a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk, Ukraine, 14 April 2023.

Photo: EPA/YEVGEN HONCHARENKO

The total spending on assistance to Ukraine "amounts to up to 2 percent of Poland's GDP, it is around PLN 50 billion," the Polish finance minister said, speaking on the sidelines of the 2023 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), taking place in Washington, DC.

Speaking with the Atlantic Council think-tank, the minister noted that while the European Union did not provide significant funds to cover the support, Poland felt it was necessary to aid its neighbour given Ukraine's fight for "our future, our values, our freedom."

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Source: IAR