EU official urges media 'not to forget Ukraine'

According to RT, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has urged the media not to shift all attention away from Ukraine to the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Speaking ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on 23 October, Borrell told reporters that Ukraine “continues to fight” and said Kiev would be on the agenda for discussions. “Don’t forget Ukraine,” the diplomat added.

Mr. Borrell also noted that the ministers will discuss the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as European sanctions against Russia.

In a brief exchange with reporters, Borrell spoke mainly about the fighting between Israel and Hamas, as no journalists present asked about the Ukraine conflict.

Also according to RT, despite previously expressing solidarity with Israel, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky lamented that this month's escalation in the Middle East has diverted attention from his country.

“If international attention shifts away from Ukraine, one way or another, there will be consequences,” Zelensky warned in an interview with France 2 earlier this month. “The fate of Ukraine depends on the solidarity of the rest of the world,” the leader in Kiev added.

US officials have said they will continue to fund Kiev and Israel, and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has stressed that Washington “can certainly afford” two wars.

She also acknowledged that direct US economic aid to Kiev is “what enables them to fight this war.”

Ukrainian Defense Ministry official Gennady Kovalenko told the Washington Post earlier in October that Kiev is “100 percent dependent on the United States.”

US President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to ask Congress to approve a new $100 billion aid bill that includes funding for Israel and Ukraine.

However, Axios reported last week that the Pentagon had decided to supply Israel with tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells that were originally intended for Ukraine.