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Europe prepares for a longer war in Ukraine, with no strategy to end it
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A resident standing in front of a residential building that was hit during a midday Russian drone strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, on April 25.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Steven Erlanger
BERLIN – With US President Donald Trump and his team preoccupied with the war in Iran, Europe is preparing for a longer war in Ukraine, with dwindling expectations for a negotiated settlement between Moscow and Kyiv.
That leaves Ukraine largely on its own, fighting a war of attrition with Russia with no end in sight. Neither Ukraine nor Russia has a clear path to victory, and no one expects that a settlement of the war could be possible without the active American involvement and pressure on Russia that Mr Trump has always been reluctant to exercise.
