Ukraine Is Doing Better, Now It’s Europe’s Turn
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko visits the site of a Russian air strike in the city on May 14, 2026
Photographer: Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg
So much has the world’s attention focused on Iran lately that it’s been easy to lose track of what’s going on in the much larger war in Ukraine. A great deal has changed there since the start of the year, demanding some new approaches from Kyiv’s European allies.
After a brutal winter, Ukraine has managed to stabilize the front over the last few months, on occasion even making net territorial gains. Overall, the nature of the battlefield has changed in ways that blunt Russia’s overwhelming advantages in manpower, artillery and armor — and all this, just as distractions in Iran have stalled the US-led peace process.