Europe
Europe’s East Is Losing Faith in Its West Over Arming Ukraine
If Russia wins, many in former communist Europe will never trust their western neighbors again, officials say.
Ukrainian soldiers carry artillery shells at their fighting position in the direction of Bakhmut.
Photographer: Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu/Getty Images
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French President Emmanuel Macron addressed a security conference in the Slovak capital Bratislava less than a year ago with an apology to Eastern Europe: “We did not always hear the voices you brought,” he said. “That time is over.”
Yet a row over how to replenish Ukraine’s critically low stocks of artillery shells — and where those supplies should be procured — is turning into a deeper rift in Europe, with east blaming west for failing to listen.