Europe pledges support for Ukraine as rift with US widens
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European leaders rushed to back Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the weekend amid a widening rift with the US, though the continent’s support for Kyiv may have an expiration date.
European leaders rushed to back Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the weekend amid a widening rift with the US, though the continent’s support for Kyiv may have an expiration date.
Berlin , Brussels , and London pledged further support to Kyiv, even as the push to rearm is imperiled by the rise of far-right European parties, which have tied cost-of-living issues to support for Ukraine: “ Financially, we can’t do it anymore ,” France’s Marine Le Pen said last month.
On Sunday, Andy Burnham became the first British prime minister to allege Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit vote — to “help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies ,” Burnham told podcast.