Western aid to Ukraine is beginning to wane. In July, the continent’s main countries, France, Germany or Italy, did not make any new commitments, as the IfW Institute in Kiel, which follows week-by-week and country-by-country aid in Kiev, noted in early August. “Compared to April or May, it decreases sharply.”emphasized in the institute. “Financial and military aid was below Ukraine’s needs.”, assessed the director of the institute, Christoph Trebesh. Cumulative aid (humanitarian, financial and military) received from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland, Spain and Italy in the spring exceeded 4 billion euros per month. Since the start of the war, 84 billion in total aid – financial, humanitarian and military – has been given to Ukraine to counter Russia, according to the institute. The summer trough does not bode well for Europe’s commitment in the coming months. But he points out the difficulty…
Source: Le Figaro
