Ukraine is trying to keep its international backers close as diplomatic gaffes, war fatigue and elections threaten to upset its alliances.
carried out this summer show there has been an overall decline in support for measures backing Ukraine, particularly when it comes to additional funding and the supply of military equipment.
Russian analysts certainly think President Vladimir Putin is banking on Western support waning both politically and militarily. One noted Russian academic, historian and author Sergei Medvedev said he's worried about Western resolve in Ukraine, saying, "I think the West is tiring." Putin's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russia "can see that there are definite frictions between Warsaw and Kyiv" and predicted that "these frictions between Warsaw and Kyiv will increase."
That put further pressure on the region as it tried to deal with a glut of cheaper Ukrainian grain imports that farmers said were filling up storage, lowering domestic prices and distorting internal markets. Nonetheless, Poland and its neighbor Slovakia are heading in to elections in the next few weeks, with analysts saying the championing of domestic issues over Ukraine should be seen as an attempt to appeal to electorates. Analysts at Teneo noted that, like Poland, the most likely winner in the upcoming elections in Slovakia has also pledged to halt military supplies to Ukraine.
"The urgency in Europe is growing — especially given expectations of a Trump nomination and growing potential that he becomes president, something most European leaders are now only just starting to seriously think about."There seemed to be attempts to cool tensions at the weekend; Zelenskyy visited Poland on his way back to Ukraine from his week in the U.S.
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