The war in the Middle East will not distract us from our commitment to Ukraine. This is the phrase taken from the latest visit of Volodimir Zelensky through. Because despite the many discrepancies in the how and what of the Iran conflict, the European powers seem to continue united in their support for kyiv.
After four years of a war started by Putin by invading Ukraine, the conflict seems far from a near solution… and it seems, above all, the Strait of Hormuz and the oil reserves.
But Europe continues moving towards kyivnot always visibly and much less quickly. In community diplomatic circles they are various fears around the situation of a country aspiring to join the EU.
In , four international diplomats have detailed a more specific concern, that of seeing how They consume ammunition, missiles and other war elements in the Middle East at a time when Ukraine faces constant supply problems.
«The concern is, obviously, that the Middle East is diverting attention from Ukraine. The Emiratis are launching Patriot missiles [de defensa aérea] left and rightwhile Ukraine desperately needs them. It cannot become a dilemma,” says one of the international representatives to the media.
These are words that, in a certain way, Zelensky himself has already dropped in recent weeks. The Ukrainian president showed the BBC are ‘very bad feeling’ about impact of Middle East war on Ukraineto the point that the ‘new’ conflict has left the two- or three-party negotiations between Ukraine, Russia and the US without ‘focus’. The Kremlin, not in vain, speaks of a “situational pause.”
