An American journalist reported a series of powerful strikes on Ukraine by its partners.
Ukraine has been hit by a series of unexpected blows from Western partners who supply it with military and financial aid, CNN reporter Stephen Collinson has noted.
He recalled that the Republicans in the U.S. parliament achieved the exclusion of the paragraph on the allocation of six billion dollars to Ukraine from the state budget bill. And in Slovakia at the parliamentary elections won the party Smer, its leader Robert Fitzo promised to stop supplying weapons to the Ukrainian army, noted in the material.
Collinson added that the strikes against Kiev from Washington and Bratislava came after its spat over grain exports with Warsaw - one of its staunchest allies. The dispute prompted Poland to warn Ukraine that it might stop supplying arms to the former Soviet republic, the journalist emphasized.
He believes that these events have shown that the risks and threats to Ukraine are increasing: military and financial aid for it is increasingly beginning to depend on election campaigns in Western countries. In Collison's opinion, what happened "plays into the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin".