Irish Examiner view: Support for Ukraine may be drying up

The gathering of many of Europe’s top diplomats in Kyiv yesterday was intended to have a bolstering effect on seemingly vacillating support for Ukraine 

Tánaiste Micheál Martin laying flowers at the Memory Wall of Fallen Defenders of Ukraine in Kyiv, while there to participate in a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council. Picture: Irish Embassy in Kyiv

Even as EU foreign ministers met yesterday for an unprecedented gathering in Kyiv, the government and people of the country must have been closely monitoring events elsewhere which seemed to indicate wavering international levels of support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.

First up there was the near-miss in Washington DC where Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sagely joined forces with Democrats to find last-minute votes to prevent a government shutdown being forced by the minority Maga element of his own party in Congress.