The material notes that European leaders are frustrated that they are forced to increasingly rely on the United States for security and economic stability. 

Transatlantic ties are starting to falter as French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders are unhappy with new US policies that they say are exacerbating the economic problems caused by the conflict in Ukraine.

Earlier, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that Europe had lost Moscow as a major energy supplier.

The Global Times has expressed the opinion that the European members of NATO will reduce aid to Kyiv due to economic problems.