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A month ago it seemed Kyiv had managed to shift Washington's attitude toward the war and secure new U.S. support. But after a series of Donad Trump decisions, Ukraine’s diplomatic breakthrough began to lose steam.
The Atlantic reports this.
Earlier in the summer Ukraine demonstrated success on the front, development of its own drone technologies, and strikes against Russian infrastructure. Against this backdrop, Trump’s rhetoric toward Kyiv also changed.
After talks with Volodymyr Zelensky in Turkey at the start of July, the American president spoke positively about his meeting with the Ukrainian leader.
“In that room there was a lot of love, a lot of unity,” the article’s authors quote Trump as saying.
One of the key elements of improving relations between Kyiv and Washington was the work of Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, Olha Stefanishyna. She tried to present Ukraine not only as a country in need of aid, but as a partner with its own military developments.
Special attention in Washington was drawn to Ukraine’s interceptor drones. According to The Atlantic, these technologies even drew the interest of Pentagon officials.
“Now everyone in Washington thinks Ukraine will win,” the authors quote one Republican strategist as saying.
However the positive momentum quickly changed. During the most recent meeting with Zelensky, Trump did not agree to transfer additional Patriot systems to Ukraine, which are needed to defend against Russian ballistic missiles.
The American president also stepped back from the previous pledge to allow Ukraine to produce these systems independently.
Another problematic issue was Starlink. Zelensky asked Trump to appeal to Elon Musk to open access to Starlink for Ukrainian strikes on Russian missile batteries in border regions of the Russian Federation. But Kyiv did not receive a favorable decision.
At the same time, new internal problems emerged in Kyiv. The resignation of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, whom some Ukrainians perceived as a fighter against corruption in the defense sector, provoked a negative reaction. Olha Stefanishyna also returned to Kyiv amid accusations of illegal enrichment.
As a result, Ukraine, in a short period, lost part of the diplomatic momentum that had accumulated over several months. Promises regarding Patriot were put on hold, negotiations over Starlink yielded no result, and Kyiv remained without an ambassador in Washington.
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