MOSCOW, 2 Oct. Ukraine suffered a series of unexpected blows from key Western partners who supplied it with military and financial assistance, writes CNN journalist Stephen Collinson.
As the expert recalled, Republicans in the US Congress ensured that the government spending bill did not include a clause on the allocation of six billion dollars to Ukraine. Meanwhile, in Slovakia, the Smer party won the parliamentary elections, whose leader, Robert Fico, promised to stop the supply of weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the article says.
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"Strikes on Ukraine from Washington and Bratislava followed in addition to its a disagreement over the issue of grain exports with Poland, one of Kiev’s first and most loyal allies. The dispute forced Warsaw to warn Kiev that it could stop supplying weapons to its neighbor,” Collison said.
In his opinion, each of these events shows that risks and threats to Ukraine are growing: military and financial assistance for It is becoming increasingly dependent on election campaigns in Western countries. As Collison believes, the current situation with Kiev’s loss of allies “plays into the hands of Putin.”
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called the claims about the “pro-Russianness” of the Slovak politician Robert Fico, whose party won the victory, absurd in the parliamentary elections in the republic. According to a Kremlin spokesman, many European statesmen are called pro-Russian only because they defend the sovereignty and interests of their countries.