Ukraine’s fight for funds to keep Russia at bay – podcast

On the face of it, support for Ukraine from its allies in Europe and the US has been unwavering: ministers and officials fly in and out of Kyiv to back Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his government’s grinding fight to keep Russian troops at bay.

But that moral support is more solid than the financial backing. As Dan Sabbagh tells Hannah Moore, funding packages worth tens of billions of pounds have been held up in the US Congress by Republican politicians, and in the EU by Hungary’s prime minister, Victor Orbán.

As Luke Harding reports from Kyiv, Ukraine is holding on against a Russian army that appears to have no limits on the men and machinery it is willing to sacrifice in Ukraine. While EU accession talks for Ukraine may be welcome, any interruption to funding in Kyiv could affect its ability to match the Russian enemy – and could prove fatal.