Ukraine is afraid of being forgotten by the Israel-Hamas war

There are suspicions hovering around the war between Hamas and Israel. Especially in Ukraine, there are doubts about Russia’s possible involvement in the attack on the far-right Palestinian paramilitary organization. Vladimir Putin would therefore have orchestrated everything to divert the attention of the United States, and the West in general, from Ukraine to the Middle East. And Kiev now fears that “economic-military aid” could advance further south, towards Israel, and at the same time “slow down there in Ukraine”. A thesis that was strongly confirmed by the alarmed words of the Ukrainian ambassador in Tel Aviv Yevhen Korniychuk, who, when interviewed by a local journalist, let out an outburst: “Unfortunately, for us I only see negative consequences”.

But what clues fuel these suspicions? According to what La Repubblica reports, the Kiev parties devised “a hasty equation” derived from some factual data. Hamas is supported by Iran, Tehran and Russia are military partners. Therefore, Moscow most likely knew about the October 6 operation in Gaza and may have contributed to the attack. In support of the equation, there would also be a meeting held in Moscow, on September 13, 2022, between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, and Ismail Haniye, one of the leaders of Hamas. “The visits by Hamas representatives to the aggressor country took place after the large-scale invasion,” points out Dmytro Lubinets, commissioner for human rights in the Ukrainian Parliament. Before the one in September, there was at least one more, in May 2022. The Kremlin’s objective is to weaken relations between the United States and the West, with the former shifting their attention to the Jewish State and strategic relations with the Middle East. .

Basically, Volodymyr Zelensky’s enormous fear is the scenario in which the most important ally, the United States, ends up getting involved in the defense of the Jewish State and is pressured by public opinion (and the State budget) to reduce economic supplies. -military. In Kiev. And according to some experts, “Trumpists and so-called pacifists are already reviving this idea, implicitly accusing the White House of having forgotten Israel.” But there would also be another impetus for American aid in that part of the world: in fact, according to the main veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Oleksiy Hetman, “some American bullet depots” are hidden there, from where supplies also arrive. ‘Ukraine. A fact of no small importance.