The outbreak of conflict between Israel and Gaza will have implications for Ukraine, which is reliant upon support from its allies in its war with Russia.
The New York Times reports that leaders in Kyiv fear the potential for a worrying drift in support as its allies’ attention is forced elsewhere.
The attention of key allies is pivoting to the war in the Gaza Strip, military aid from the United States is bogged down in the Republican fight over leadership in Congress and cracks in European support have emerged during elections in Poland and Slovakia.
“We are now in a new phase,” Pavlo Klimkin, a former Ukrainian foreign minister, said of the international politics of the fighting in Ukraine, which in the past week has been eclipsed by the eruption of war in Israel and Gaza.
“The whole geopolitical environment has become more diverse, more messy,” he told The New York Times.
In the United States, Klimkin said, those “shaping decisions on foreign policy only have 24 hours in a day to care about the whole planet”.
Another war, he said, means “less time for us”.