In the corridors of Brussels, there is a sinking feeling that the political will to help Ukraine prevail over Russian aggression is ebbing on both sides of the Atlantic.
It may take a second shock of the magnitude of Russia's full-scale invasion to jolt western countries out of their funk, spurring Europeans to boost defenses.
For now, the US is preoccupied with its presidential election and an escalating war in the Middle East, pushing Russia's advances on Donbas out of the headlines.
Russia conquered more Ukrainian territory in September than in any month since March 2022, revealing a dangerous drift in American and European attention away from Kyiv.
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