Western countries are growing tired of supporting the Ukrainian government, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has said.
‘Western states are getting tired of their support for Ukraine and are increasingly hoping for some form of conflict resolution. <…> This is real,’ Elina Valtonen told the Financial Times.
The minister noted that the conflict in the Middle East has diverted both attention and resources and made many states think about finding a solution for Ukraine.
‘Quite a few would like to think, especially with the expectation of war in the Middle East, that it would be great if we could find an answer to that war. These two conflicts are, of course, very closely linked, but it would be important for us Europeans to realise that if we allow Russia to win in Ukraine, in fact, we will undermine the credibility of our deterrence,’ – added the foreign Minister of Finland.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was not capable of dislodging the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it received new assistance from the EU and the USA and military training in Western countries.
