Will Germany cutting its military aid to Ukraine have a major impact on Kyiv?

The German government is set to allocate just four billion euros in the 2025 budget - almost half of the €7.5 billion it had allocated this year.

The budget proposal that the coalition government finalised last Friday after lengthy negotiations will now be examined by the German parliament.

If this cut is confirmed, defence researcher Alain de Neve of the Royal Military Academy of Belgium warns that the impact will not be negligible.

"Obviously, this will have an impact, especially in financial terms. As for concrete military aid in terms of equipment supplied, we can see that Poland is ahead of Germany at this level," he told Euronews.

"We can clearly see that it is Ukraine's neighbouring countries that participate most (in this aid). We should also note the particular case of the United Kingdom, which is also making a much greater contribution than France, Spain or Italy," he explained.

Since 2022, the EU and its member states have donated €38 billionin military aid, of which €28 billion came from Germany.

German aid has mainly been given in the form of "funds for the security capacity building initiative", in addition to five billion euros in armoury sent by its armed forces.

The G7, which brings together the world's seven largest economies, is discussing the possibility of using part of the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to supply Ukraine with military equipment.

However, the political and technical details to be discussed by the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US won't be easy to resolve, said Alain de Neve. "No, it couldn't really constitute a sustainable resource to support the Ukrainians in their resistance against Russia."

"We have to realise that these $300 billion or so will