"That's when everything went in a very bad direction": Lithuanian politician names Western allies' main mistake in Ukraine war

Ukraine's Western allies made a big mistake during Russia's full-scale invasion - they were so afraid of the Kremlin's nuclear threats starting from the fall of 2022 that they sharply reduced their support for Ukraine.

At that time, the Ukrainian army was conducting its first and promising counteroffensive, but the reduction in aid did not allow it to build on its success. This was stated by former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis in an interview with Voice of America.

The politician recalled the moment of a sharp decline in the pace of support for Ukraine from Western allies when assessing the main successes and failures of US President Joe Biden. He believes that Washington "succumbed to Russia's nuclear blackmail," and this was the main "mistake" on the part of the United States.

"And that was a very specific moment when we can say that everything went in a very bad direction. It happened in the fall of … 2022, when Ukraine succeeded in its first counteroffensive," Landsbergis said.

At that time, the Ukrainian Defense Forces de-occupied most of the Kharkiv region and liberated Kherson. The politician believes that this demonstrated Ukraine's strength and Russia's weakness to the world.

"And then Putin pulled out his card and said he would use nuclear weapons if his army was on the verge of collapse. And then the leaders of the West literally threw their hands up in the air and said, "We can't do anything to counter this." And you could feel like someone had "turned down the volume" on helping Ukraine. And now we are in this doctrine. We are still in this doctrine," Landsbergis stated.

Earlier, Atlantic Council experts said that providing modern weapons to Ukraine would bring sustainable peace and even a Nobel Prize to Trump. This step is one of the points of the "eight big ideas for the second Trump administration" compiled by the council.

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