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.
— Brendan Ruberry