Will the Israel-Hamas conflict sap support for Ukraine in the West?

Russia could exploit Middle East violence to claim Western backing for Kyiv is waning

Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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As the Israel-Hamas conflict continues to unfold, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed concern about the potential loss of military support for Ukraine. 

During a "surprise" visit to Nato headquarters in Brussels, where defence ministers are meeting, Zelenskyy highlighted the danger of a dwindling focus on Ukraine "at a time when turbulence in the US Congress threatens to disrupt aid for Kyiv and the world's attention is drawn to the crisis unfolding in the Middle East", said The Guardian

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.