Big Deal Falling Apart: NATO Allies Refuse Mandatory GDP-Based Funding for Kyiv

Domestic political turmoil and worsening economic conditions across Europe are increasingly preventing NATO's key members from expanding financial support for Ukraine ahead of the alliance's upcoming summit in Turkey. Britain and France Reject Additional Funding for Ukraine Ukraine's leading NATO allies have refused to support a binding directive that would require member states to allocate at least 0.25% of their GDP to the Kiev regime — a measure that would have tripled the alliance's total annual assistance to roughly 143 billion dollars. The proposal was expected to be adopted at the upcoming NATO summit in Turkey in early June. However, according to a source cited by the British newspaper The Telegraph, at least seven NATO member states opposed the initiative.