Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in Kyiv that Germany would provide about 1 billion euros in further military aid and would not be intimidated out of supporting Ukraine.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced further military aid for Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv on 4 October that coincided with Russian drone strikes on the capital, Reuters reported.
Reuters put the new military package at about 1 billion euros, or 1.1 billion dollars. Bloomberg described a broader package of weaponry and energy-sector aid worth about 1.35 billion euros, including 350 million euros for energy repairs. The two figures cover overlapping but not identical slices of the announcement.
German officials said executives traveling with Merz signed 14 agreements with Ukrainian counterparts worth roughly 6.6 billion euros, including IRIS-T missiles from Diehl Defence, radar equipment from Hensoldt and jet drone interceptors from Quantum Systems.
Merz said Germany would not be intimidated. Russia has called accusations of hybrid warfare baseless. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine was also sharing operational experience, not only receiving equipment.
Delivery schedules for the new missiles and interceptors were not published in the reports reviewed. The visit remained the latest material aid decision as of 5 October.