The six largest European nations made no new promises of military assistance to Ukraine throughout July, the news website Politico reported on Thursday, citing data from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany.
It’s the first month that no such aid has been pledged since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in late February, which is a sign that “military aid to Ukraine may be waning,” the US outlet concluded.
It also accused leading EU nations, particularly Germany and France, of failing to keep up with the level of military assistance to Kiev coming from the UK, Poland and the US.
Throughout the conflict, the Kiel Institute has been running a so-called Ukraine Support Tracker to list and quantify international military, financial and humanitarian support to Vladimir Zelensky’s government.
Christoph Trebesch, who heads the Ukraine Support Tracker team, told Politico that his project’s data revealed European military aid commitments to Kiev have been in decline since the end of April.