stefan92
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Sorry, missed that.Was this question ever answered?
Original source in english seems to be: https://www.ft.com/content/1aa35421-35c3-4183-93ea-95c3007a4f3d
But that is paywalled and I read about it in German here: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wirtschaft-verantwortung/ukraine-braucht-dringend-geld-li.271538
Essentially the US pressuring the EU to send money to Ukraine so Ukraine can pay the leasing rates for the US lend/lease deliveries.
The US are the only Western state demanding such payments from Ukraine at the moment, everyone else is either directly sending weapons and/or setting up a fund for Ukraine to enable them to buy industry weapons (deliveries like the Matador have been provided under such a "here is money for you to buy weapons in Germany" deal, but there have been several examples for this all over the EU).
Or in other words, if we talk about supporting Ukraine, the complete US lend/lease deliveries are economically an EU contribution. And I stand by my verdict that it is a disgrace that the US take the opportunity to make money out of this.