Deutsche Welle | Security pacts bridge gap until Ukraine joins NATO

However, according to Jamie Shea, a senior fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Friends of Europe, the security agreements’ “main function is psychological rather than material.” The former British NATO official told DW, they “simply sum up bilateral assistance already given,” like, for example, a Czech initiative to supply Ukraine with rounds of 155mm ammunition via the European Peace Fund, through NATO channels, or in a US military and financial aid package worth $60 billion (€ 55 billion).