Haven’t heard any official expressing 'war fatigue,' Ukraine's foreign minister says

By Burc Eruygur

ISTANBUL (AA) - Amid a perceived waning interest on the part of the West, Ukraine’s foreign minister on Wednesday said he has not heard any official of "war fatigue."

“I haven't heard any official, neither in a meeting nor in a private conversation, who would say, ‘Listen, we are tired of helping you.’ So when we mention this 'war fatigue,' we should clearly kind of define this term,” Dmytro Kuleba said in a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

“It doesn't matter how tired or exhausted we will be. We will keep defending our country. So, it's absolutely normal for a human being or for a country to get tired, but it would be abnormal to stop defending yourself,” he added.

Kuleba said Ukraine’s priority for this year is to “throw Russia from the skies,” expressing that the one who controls the skies will “define when and how the war will end.”

“And that will require providing Ukraine with planes, which are on their way,” Kuleba said, indicating that F-16 fighter jets, long-range missiles, drones and electronic warfare will be provided to the country.

“So, if all of that comes, we will continue winning and we will continue liberating. But, you know, we are fighting a very big enemy, a powerful enemy, an enemy that doesn’t sleep. So it takes time,” he said.

Commenting on a question of the effect of the upcoming US presidential election on the conflict, Kuleba said Ukraine will “work with the reality” of whatever choice the American people will make in the poll.

The foreign minister said what matters is that the US political system “remains focused” and doesn’t “drown into domestic fights.”

“America is important for global stability, and America will have to remain focused on global issues. And Ukraine is one of those issues,” he said.

While the US and EU are struggling to provide enough funds to keep Ukraine’s war economy afloat, it is being said that changing Western political dynamics and a global focus on the Israeli-Hamas war could drain support for Kyiv in the nearly two-year-old war.