Western Media: The EU Supports Ukraine in a "War of Attrition" Against Russia

Reference News Network reported on February 28 According to a report from the Spanish newspaper El Mundo on February 23, given the significant political distance between Kyiv and Moscow, the end of the Ukraine war has become a labyrinth. The emergence of Trump and his chaotic peace process has not only failed to stop the violence but has also exacerbated the conflict.

In the face of the current failure of the U.S. presidential initiative and the stagnation of Russian forces on the battlefield, European leaders (especially from Germany, Poland, and the UK) have agreed with Kyiv on a strategy: to continue to deplete Moscow's finances, forcing its leaders back to the negotiating table, possibly by this summer.

Diplomatic sources from the EU in Kyiv revealed, “No one wants to abandon Trump's current initiative,” but they are aware that “the initiative is doomed to fail.”

Moreover, this is a peace plan over which Europe has no say, and the final agreement is far from satisfactory for Europe.

Confronted with this stubborn reality, Kyiv and Brussels have been preparing for at least another two years, although they hope that signs of irreversible economic decline in Russia will emerge sooner than that.

An article published by the U.S. think tank Institute for the Study of War states that the war “has severely weakened Russia's military and economy, and Russia will find it increasingly difficult to cope with this decline in the coming year.”

Amid the challenges faced by Ukraine, there is also good news: according to data from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, which has tracked Western arms deliveries since the conflict began, “Europe has almost completely compensated for all the weapons provided to Ukraine during the Biden administration, which were later halted by the Trump administration.”

Additionally, the EU has agreed to provide Ukraine with a €90 billion loan through European joint debt, a measure currently being obstructed by Hungary, with Brussels hoping to push for a thaw in the coming weeks.

The Ukrainian defense industry, funded by Europe, produces various drones used by its soldiers on the battlefield. In the context of an increasingly roboticized war, Ukraine hopes to reduce its reliance on slow and complex mobilization, gradually relying more on ground unmanned systems to defend positions, rather than allowing its suffering and reduced infantry to sacrifice for months without rotation. Through this model, Ukraine is able to sustain itself for a longer period. (Translated by Han Chao)