War Balance
Burundi's support for Ukraine since 2022: <€1m (<0.01% of one year's GDP: its aid, refugee hosting, private donations and its other parts of support, net of money flowing back). Russia kept €10m (0.29% of GDP) less than without the war. The net is 0.29% of a year's GDP toward Ukraine (likely from 0.51% toward Russia to 3.5% toward Ukraine; likely toward Ukraine · 73%).
Leaning toward Ukraine by
0.29% of a year's GDP since 2022
likely toward Ukraine · 73%
likely from 0.51% toward Russia to 3.5% toward Ukraine · €10m · ≈ 0.06%/yr
Supported Ukraine + cut Russia's earnings from trade = 0.29% of GDP toward Ukraine. Mostly less kept by Russia from trade.
Chance toward Ukraine: 73%; 100% of the other method choices agree.
Support for Ukraine
Supported Ukraine with
<0.01%
<€1m
about 0 essentially zero
Russia's earnings from trade
Probably cut Russia's earnings from trade by
0.29%
€10m
likely from 0.51% toward Russia to 3.5% toward Ukraine likely toward Ukraine · 73%
Russia kept €10m (0.29% of GDP) less than without the war.
The two lines add up to Russia's earnings from trade; their ranges do not.
Chance toward Ukraine: 73%; 100% of the other method choices agree. Not certain, mostly because of how much it would have bought from Russia without the war. What decides it: if Russia kept less from fuel and goods sold here were 87% smaller, the direction would flip.
Supported Ukraine with <0.01% · <€1m
Probably cut Russia's earnings from trade by 0.29% · €10m
| Russia kept less from fuel and goods sold hereC | +0.34% | €11m |
| Russia kept more from war-time fuel pricesC | −0.04% | €1m |
+ toward Ukraine, − toward Russia (in support for Ukraine, − is money it earned back or bought less from Ukraine than without the war). Letters: A reported, B measured estimate, C modelled estimate, D rough indication.
The year with the largest net amount was 2022: +€5m. The yearly amounts are small against the range of the total, so their side from one year to the next is not a finding.
| Year | Support for Ukraine | Trade: toward Ukraine (+) / toward Russia (−) | Net | Net since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | +<€1m | +€5m | +€5m | +0.16% |
| 2023 | +<€1m | −€1m | −€1m | +0.13% |
| 2024 | +<€1m | +€3m | +€3m | +0.23% |
| 2025 | −<€1m | −<€1m | −<€1m | +0.22% |
| 2026* | −<€1m | +€2m | +€2m | +0.29% |
Each year's amount: + toward Ukraine, − toward Russia. *2026: to August.
It bought €9m from Russia in 2021 and €18m in 2025. It sold €1m to Russia in 2021 and €1m in 2025. For Burundi: €1m paid above no-war prices, most of it in 2026, 71% of it on gas contracts. These are sales values at each year's prices; the totals count what the seller kept on them.
We found no sanctions of Burundi's own against Russia (checked 27 October 2026). This says nothing about whether firms there follow other countries' sanctions. Russia's list of “unfriendly” states does not name Burundi. Checked 27 October 2026.
10 sources back its parts: 1 official statistics, 1 research reports, 0 press reports and 2 of this project's own estimates, plus 6 method inputs. By size, 0% of its parts are reported or measured (A–B), 100% modelled (C) and 0% rough indications (D).
Chance toward Ukraine: 73%; 100% of the other method choices agree. Not certain, mostly because of how much it would have bought from Russia without the war. What decides it: if Russia kept less from fuel and goods sold here were 87% smaller, the direction would flip.
In money terms the net is +0.29% of one year's GDP (likely from 0.51% toward Russia to 3.5% toward Ukraine; likely toward Ukraine · 73%). Chance toward Ukraine: 73%; 100% of the other method choices agree. Russia kept €10m (0.29% of GDP) less than without the war. The number counts money: weapons at their money value; votes, diplomacy and intent are not in it.
10 sources back its parts, 1 of them official statistics. By part: Russia kept less from fuel and goods sold here: UN Comtrade, IMF trade statistics and Eurostat: goods trade with Russia and Ukraine; Russia kept more from war-time fuel prices: War-time price windfall on Russian fuel: payments minus the same volume at the prices a no-war market expected (pre-invasion forecasts and futures: IMF, World Bank, EIA, ECB, ICE). The map's panel lists every one, with its documents.
We found no sanctions of Burundi's own against Russia (checked 27 October 2026). This says nothing about whether firms there follow other countries' sanctions. Russia's list of “unfriendly” states does not name Burundi.
Leaning toward Ukraine
10 sources in all; the map's panel lists every one, with its documents. Open in the map · How this is measured
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Cite as: War Balance, figures to August 2026, https://warbalance.org/country/burundi/