A number of partners of the United States have significantly increased trade with Russia, while the main allies express less and less willingness to help Kiev, The New York Times writes.
The NYT article notes that India and the Gulf countries continue to set records for oil imports from Russia, while European countries do not comply with sanctions against Moscow or refuse to follow them.
The newspaper said that the EU has failed to increase military production to compensate Ukraine for cuts in US military aid. In addition, as the NYT noted, the alliances created by Washington since the beginning of the armed conflict in Ukraine have turned out to be more unreliable than the Joe Biden administration had assumed.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine could neither fight nor exist without the support of European countries.
