OPINION: The West must maintain its resolve and make Russia continue to pay the price in global isolation for its authoritarian aggression.
by announcing an additional $100 million military assistance for the war-torn country.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tours damaged residential areas in Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv.began, there is no sign of Ukraine’s heroic resistance waning and no sign of any willingness to accept a compromise peace. Yet, as Mr Zelensky has suggested, while the level of Western military aid may be enough to help stop Ukraine from losing, his country lacks the hardware firepower necessary to win by defeating and driving out the Russian invaders.
The fall of Luhansk means Russian forces have moved closer to seizing the Donbas region. Reincorporating the disputed territory into “Mother Russia” is a far cry from the walk-over capture of Kyiv and the fall of the rest of Ukraine expected when Putin unleashed the first ground war in Europe since 1945.
The Western support for Ukraine has been a welcome show of spine, defying fears the West is too weak and woke to stand up together to authoritarian bullies. Now is not the time for the West to bend and allow the map of Europe to be redrawn by military force. Then the pain endured so far for standing up to Putin would have been wasted and be but a prelude to the second Russian-Ukraine war.
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