Kremlin: The West will no longer give Ukraine money

 According to TASS, Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday: “Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is in a difficult situation, without sending money and ammunition from abroad he will have many opponents inside Ukraine.” According to the report, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that his country needs more financial help from Western countries and stressed that Western countries are not united in supporting Ukraine and the issue could prolong the war. Vladimir Zelensky Zelensky added: “Victory over Russia will be achieved when every NATO member country is fully committed to ending this war.” In this regard, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat admitted on Tuesday that it is difficult to counter Russian missiles. A Ukrainian Air Force spokesman said: "The problem is political problems in America and the reluctance of some European countries to provide more military assistance. That's why we are looking for a solution. We will have to wait for aid packages." Earlier, Der Spiegel magazine reported that the parliament of Germany, one of the NATO member states and a supporter of Ukraine, rejected a draft resolution on sending Taurus cruise missiles to this country. This project received 178 votes in favor and 485 against.

Representatives of the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party of Germany, which recently supported increasing military aid to Ukraine, opposed the resolution due to internal political differences. According to senior German Defense Ministry officials, the Russian army is currently taking the lead in the war in Ukraine. General Christian Fröding, head of the working group for the coordination of military assistance to Ukraine at the German Ministry of Defense, said that the lack of air support and the absence of an effective air defense system are the main reasons for the failure of the Ukrainian army in counterattacks of the country's army against the Russian army over the past year. Continuing the report, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said at the 18th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in a virtual speech: “I encourage the group to redouble its efforts to provide Ukraine with more air defense systems and critical capabilities.” Lloyd Austin Earlier, on October 20, 2023, US President Joe Biden presented to the US Congress an emergency funding package worth $106 billion, including $3.61 billion to help Ukraine, $3.14 billion to help Israel and $6.10 billion to help secure the US borders , but Congress has not yet approved it. Western support for Ukraine appears to have weakened in recent months due to disagreements between Brussels and Washington. Meanwhile, a news source close to the Italian government said: "The country intends to use its G7 presidency to challenge the perception of Russia's victory over Ukraine and that the West is tired of helping Kyiv." 

The outbreak of the Zionist regime's war against the Gaza Strip caused a reduction in aid to Ukraine from NATO members and the United States. So far, Ukraine has not achieved success in counter-offensive against Russia and does not enjoy serious support from its NATO allies. Elsewhere in the report, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday following a meeting between that country's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis in New York: "The Russian side has a principled assessment of Switzerland's ongoing retreat from the principle of neutrality, since Bern provided absolute support to the Kyiv regime." The ministry added: “At this meeting it was emphasized that such actions, as well as Switzerland’s unfriendly policy towards Russia, will be taken into account.” The meeting between Lavrov and Cassis lasted about a year, and as a result, the Swiss Foreign Minister refused to talk to Russian journalists. Not long ago, Swiss President Alain Berset, during a trip to Kyiv, met with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and declared his country’s commitment to supporting Ukraine in the long term. Switzerland has joined Western sanctions against Russia and announced that it has frozen about 7.5 billion francs of Russian assets.

Contrary to its constitutional law of neutrality in all world wars, Switzerland supports European sanctions against Russia and has repeatedly sent civilian aid to Ukraine. The war in Ukraine, with all its extensive political, military, economic, social and even cultural consequences, is already in its 23rd month, and the West, continuing to send all types of light and heavy weapons to Ukraine, continues to pump this country with weapons. European and Western countries, especially America, having increased sanctions pressure on the Russian Federation, have not taken a single step towards ending the war in Ukraine; on the contrary, they continue to add fuel to the fire of the war in Ukraine. Russian officials, as well as some Western experts and media, call the war in Ukraine a proxy war between the West and Russia. Following Ukraine's repeated requests to join NATO and receive multimillion-dollar aid from the West and Western actions near the Russian border, that country's President Vladimir Putin responded to a request from the leaders of the separatist Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine for military assistance and ordered a military attack in the Donbass.