The text specifies that in July none of the large countries of the European Union, such as France, Germany or Italy, made significant new commitments to provide military support to Kiev.
“The data shows that European nations pledged only about €1.5 billion in military aid last month, a significant decrease compared to April or May,” the organization confirmed.
In this regard, the document argues that most of the new pledges come from a single country, Norway, which pledged €1 billion in financial cooperation.
The report also shows that the authorities in Paris, Madrid and Rome have so far provided very little military support to Ukraine and remain largely opaque about their aid.
With this in mind, the director of the IfW research center, Christoph Trebesch, explained that although the donor governments did not provide any new aid, they did provide some of the support already promised, such as weapon systems.
Likewise, The Telegraph columnist and retired British Army officer Richard Kemp said the previous day that the lack of success in counter-offensives by Ukrainian forces in Donbass and Kherson province over the next three months will mean that the West will lose allies reduce support for the Kiev authorities.
He also added that winter will have a greater strategic impact on the conflict and “Kyiv will tend to be the losing side,” he said.
“Ukraine has little time left to change the situation on the battlefield as winter will play in Russia’s favor given European states’ dependence on Russian energy supplies,” Kemp added.
The United States, the European Union and other Western countries have so far shipped arms worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Ukraine.
In particular, Chancellor Olaf Scholz recently declared that Berlin is supplying Kyiv with weapons that are so new that they are not even used by the Bundeswehr.
For its part, Russia persists in accusing the Western powers of undermining the resolution of the conflict by providing the Ukrainian government with more and more weapons, including long-range systems.
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