The conflict in the Middle East carries serious repercussions on the ongoing situation in Ukraine after the United States has already begun transferring weapons and ammunition to Israel and allocating additional amounts of aid.
This was reported in a report published by the Russian newspaper "Izvestia" by writer Bogdan Lvovsky, who says that "Western media have reduced their monitoring of events in Ukraine."
Washington has delivered weapons to Israel that may be very useful to the Ukrainian armed forces, and has set out to supply Tel Aviv with joint direct attack munitions, 155mm artillery shells, a batch of armored jeeps and missiles for air defense systems.
U.S. Preference for Support for Israel
The Pentagon also plans to send two Iron Dome air defense systems to Israel. Meanwhile, Kiev's demand for the Iron Dome system has long been consistently rejected by both Washington and Tel Aviv. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu justified this refusal by fearing a resale of weapons to Iran.
"Against the backdrop of events in the Middle East, Ukraine is facing difficulties in receiving financial assistance," he told Vovsky, explaining that Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko says that "his country is having difficulty securing financial support, and that the war has drained the power of Western partners, exhausting them to the point that they want to forget it," citing the internal political context in various countries and geopolitical changes as a reason for this.
The situation in the United States is extremely difficult after Republicans criticized US President Joe Biden's initiative to approve a joint aid package for Ukraine and Israel by Congress. While Republicans have been willing to agree to aid Israel, the allocation of funds to Kiev has remained questionable.
Ukrainian measures to counter negative repercussions
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's team continues to tighten mobilization with the aim of compensating for the ammunition shortage by increasing the army's manpower. Since the beginning of October, all female doctors have been enrolled in the army, while the Ministry of Education has allowed the recruitment of students on study leave.
Denis Denisov, an expert at the Financial University of the Government of the Russian Federation, told Vovosky that the West will continue to help Ukraine, and that the conflict in the Middle East also attracts attention and resources, but that Ukraine remains the most important tool to contain and confront Russia.
Denisov said that "it is naïve to expect that the priorities of the West, due to the situation in Israel, will change, despite the reduction in financial and military aid to Ukraine," adding that "in return, the Ukrainian army will be supported at a level that enables it to continue its military operations." Denisov rules out the possibility of new Ukrainian counterattacks, as the Ukrainian armed forces in most sectors of the front will take a defensive stance.