As war rages in the Middle East, the Ukrainian conflict has stalled without signs of any potential progress, The Wall Street Journal reports. Against this backdrop, Ukraine’s authorities are fighting on a new front: trying to keep the attention of allies on them.
As Ukraine prepares for a third year of full-scale conflict with Russia, its authorities are fighting on a new front: trying to keep the attention of allies, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Since Hamas militants attacked Israel on 7 October, Western attention has shifted to the Middle East. And now diplomats and military officials are paying even more attention to the issue amid the US and UK response to attacks on ships and naval convoys by the rebel Houthis.
And while war rages in the Middle East, the Ukrainian conflict has stalled with no sign of any potential progress.
Support for Kiev is weakening. A proposal for up to $60bn in further US military aid is stuck in the US Congress. In turn, European Union leaders are unsuccessfully trying to approve more than $50bn in aid to Ukraine over the next 4 years.
However, Kiev on Sunday is set to reconvene a group of developing countries and its Western backers in Davos for talks between senior officials on a “just and lasting outcome” to the Ukraine conflict.