At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke out rather harshly about the position of European states, which, relying on the US and NATO, do too little to protect themselves from external threats. In this context, he mentioned Greenland, which US President Donald Trump has “cast an eye” on, and Belarus, where protests have not found support from Europeans, and now the Russians have deployed the Oreshnik on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, and the possibility of Russia buying foreign components for missiles with which the aggressor country is attacking our state.
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The Telegraph columnist Samuel Ramani also writes that the collective West is showing shortsightedness by not providing Ukraine with maximum support. Moreover, he believes that this is hurting Europeans almost as much as Ukrainians, who are demonstrating resilience and developing new technological solutions to confront the Russians.
The author of the article mentions such positive moments as the cooperation of Ukrainians with the American company Palantir and plans to equip interceptor drones that hunt Russian kamikaze drones with artificial intelligence capabilities. Britain is increasing the production of Octopus drones, and the Poles have announced their intention to increase gas exports to Ukraine.
But all this, according to the columnist, is half-measures in the situation Ukraine finds itself in. The political situation in a number of European countries has also made its mark. For example, it has not yet been determined whether the Czech Republic will supply Ukraine with L-159 fighters capable of shooting down the Shaheds. President Petr Pavel recently announced this, but Czech Prime Minister Andriy Babis has “frozen” these deliveries.
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There were also technical problems in the UK with the supply of Gravehawk anti-aircraft missiles. The author of the article also mentioned Ukraine's energy sector, which is suffering from powerful Russian strikes, which have become more frequent during the frosty period.
Samuel Ramani believes that strengthening cooperation and increasing investment in advanced Ukrainian technologies, primarily in the development of UAV interception tools, would also strengthen the defense capabilities of the North Atlantic Alliance and its resistance to certain Russian innovations.
We will remind you that the other day in Abu Dhabi, trilateral negotiations between delegations of Ukraine, the United States, and Russia took place for the first time, the initial results of which were reported by President Zelensky.
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