Ukrainian president also meets leaders of Serbia and Croatia in bid to broaden support base
Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s high-speed tour of Europe’s smaller countries continued in Athens on Tuesday, where he obtained further military and diplomatic support after securing a long-awaitedThe Ukrainian president met Serbia’s president and Croatia’s prime minister at a Balkans summit in the Greek capital, while a day earlier Greece’s prime minister had said his country would help train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 jets.
Although the US, easily the world’s largest defence spender, has dominated the supply of weapons to Ukraine, with $43bn of military aid, strategically significant armaments are controlled by a range of European countries beyond the larger nations of Britain, France and Germany. Ukraine, meanwhile, knows it is prudent to maintain a broad base of international support, with the war likely to last into 2024, compared with Russia, which has the firm backing of only a handful of countries, including Belarus, Iran and North Korea.
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