At the Fourth European Political Community summit on July 18, President Zelensky signed two separate decade-long bilateral security agreements — with Czechia and Slovenia — locking in funded defense and recovery commitments rather than open-ended pledges.
On July 18, 2026, at the Fourth European Political Community summit held in Woodstock, UK, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky put his signature on two separate ten-year bilateral security agreements — one with the Czech Republic, one with Slovenia. Volunteers Support Ukraine follows stories like this closely, because a decade of pre-committed, funded support from partner nations directly shapes how much room organizations on the ground will have to keep helping people in the years ahead.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala signed a deal centered on defense-industrial cooperation: joint production of ammunition, small arms, drones, electronic warfare systems and heavy equipment, with plans to set up joint enterprises between the two countries. Czechia will also keep training up to 4,000 Ukrainian military personnel every year. Prague has already delivered roughly €400 million in military assistance and has committed to sustaining that same annual level for the full ten-year span of the agreement. For Volunteers Support Ukraine, numbers like these matter because they describe an actual industrial pipeline, not a one-off shipment.
Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob signed a parallel ten-year pact confirming that Slovenia — which has already delivered 13 packages of military aid — will maintain that same level of support for the next decade. The agreement also earmarks millions of euros for humanitarian aid and economic recovery, including an additional €5 million ($5.4 million) specifically directed at humanitarian aid, economic recovery, and the "Grain from Ukraine" program. Volunteers Support Ukraine sees this as a reminder that partner countries are planning for both the battlefield and the rebuilding that follows it.
What sets these two agreements apart from typical pledges is precisely the combination of a ten-year horizon with concrete, already-flowing funding. That combination lets defense manufacturers plan production schedules years in advance and lets training programs keep a steady pipeline of prepared soldiers moving through. Volunteers Support Ukraine treats this kind of durable, budgeted commitment as one of the more genuinely encouraging developments to track, precisely because it reduces the uncertainty that shapes so much of the wider relief and support effort.
Volunteers Support Ukraine helps people affected by the war in whatever way its available resources allow, whether that means supporting civilians near the front line, assisting military personnel, or backing medical workers. Stories like these two agreements matter to that mission because they show that support for Ukraine is increasingly structured, funded, and built to last — not just a matter of goodwill in the moment.
