Spanish PM announces $710 million in military aid for Ukraine

AFP , Tuesday 18 Nov 2025

Spain will give Ukraine a fresh military aid package worth 615 million euros ($710 million) to help it fight Russia's invasion, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Tuesday.

Pedro Sanchez and Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (R) and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) give a joint press conference at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid. AFP

 

Speaking at a Madrid press conference alongside visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Sanchez said around 300 million euros will go toward "new defence equipment".

"Your fight is ours," Sanchez said, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin's "neo-imperialism" aims to "weaken the European project and everything it stands for".

The announcement came after the leaders signed several bilateral agreements, including measures to combat Russian disinformation.

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, tens of thousands of people, both civilians and soldiers, have died, and millions have been displaced, leaving large swathes of the country devastated.

Earlier on Tuesday, Sanchez and Zelenskyy visited Madrid's Reina Sofía Museum to view Pablo Picasso's anti-war masterpiece "Guernica".

In April 2022, just weeks after Russia's invasion, Zelenskyy compared it to the 1937 bombing of Guernica, a small Basque town attacked by Nazi warplanes in support of Franco's troops during the Spanish Civil War.

Zelenskyy, who visited Paris on Monday, is scheduled to travel to Turkey on Wednesday for renewed peace talks involving Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US envoy Steve Witkoff.

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