A Russian Blitz Kills at Least Nine in Ukraine as Zelenskyy Tells U.S. Lawmakers He Believes Support Is Being Slowed
Russia launched another missile and drone blitz of civilian areas in Ukraine, killing at least nine people, officials said Tuesday. It came as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy travelled to Norway to press for more American and European help.
Zelenskyy told a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Monday that he believes some political decision has been made to slow down support for his country.
On the money side, Germany's Kiel Institute, which tracks assistance to Kyiv, puts allocations by European countries and European Union institutions at 237 billion euros ($266 billion), against 115 billion euros ($129 billion) from the United States.
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If the scoreboard is euros, Europe's collective contribution runs at roughly twice the American figure, and that is worth remembering the next time someone in Washington reaches for the free-rider line.
Money is the easy measure, though. European governments worried about Russia's plans have been trying to take up the slack of any falloff in U.S. supplies, but some key assets are American-made, so a larger European ledger does not automatically mean Europe can substitute for Washington.