Two years after the start of the large-scale war, the dynamic of Western support for kyiv is losing momentum: newly committed aid is down over the period from August 2023 to January 2024 compared to the same period of the the previous year, according to the latest report from the Kiel Institute, published in February 2024. And this trend could continue, with the American Senate struggling to pass aid, and the European Union (EU) having had every difficulty in have aid of 50 billion adopted on 1is February 2024, due to the Hungarian blockade. Please note, these two aid packages are not yet taken into account in the latest assessment made by the Kiel Institute, which ends in January 2024.
Data from the German institute show that the number of donors is decreasing and is concentrated around a core of countries: the United States, Germany, the countries of northern and eastern Europe, which promise both high financial aid and advanced weaponry. In total, since February 2022, the countries which support kyiv have committed at least 276 billion euros on the military, financial or humanitarian level.
In absolute terms, the richest countries have been the most generous. The United States is by far the leading donors, with more than 75 billion euros in aid announced, including 46.3 billion in military aid. European Union countries announced both bilateral aid (64.86 billion euros) and joint aid from European Union funds (93.25 billion euros), for a total of 158.1 billion euros.
When we relate these contributions to the gross domestic product (GDP) of each donor country, the ranking changes. The United States has fallen to twentieth place (0.32% of its GDP), well behind countries neighboring Ukraine or former friendly Soviet republics. Estonia takes the lead in aid relative to GDP with 3.55%, followed by Denmark (2.41%) and Norway (1.72%). The rest of the top 5 is completed by Lithuania (1.54%) and Latvia (1.15%). The three Baltic states, which all share borders with Russia or its ally Belarus, have been among the most generous donors since the start of the conflict.
In the ranking of the percentage of GDP, France is twenty-seventh, having committed with 0.07% of its GDP, just behind Greece (0.09%). The aid provided by Paris has been in constant decline since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – France was twenty-fourth in April 2023, and thirteenth in the summer of 2022.
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British official figures showed that ship traffic through the Suez Canal has declined by two-thirds since the beginning of this April, highlighting the impact of the turmoil in the Red Sea on global trade.
The British Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that ships crossing the waterway decreased by 66 percent during the first week of April, compared to the same period last year, according to what the newspaper reported.The Independent” British.
The Suez Canal is an important and busy trade route for ships traveling between Asia and Europe, often carrying goods such as oil and natural gas.
British Bureau of Statistics figures showed a 59 percent decrease in ships entering and exiting through the Bab al-Mandab Strait during the same period.
The Office for National Statistics based its data on an analysis of the number of ships using technology that tracks shipping locations every few seconds.
These data highlight the impact of the disturbances that the Red Sea has witnessed since the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Container ships along major trade routes in the Red Sea have been subjected to repeated attacks since last November by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
These attacks forced many shipping companies to reroute their ships around Africa via the Cape of Good Hope, which is a much longer journey, causing shipping costs to rise and causing delays.
The data showed that ship traffic around the Cape of Good Hope began to rise in December, and by the second week of February it had more than doubled compared to the same week in 2023.
The Office for National Statistics said these figures were consistent with widely reported marine disturbances in the Middle East.
Since the start of the war in October 2023 between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yemeni Houthi rebels have carried out dozens of attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden against commercial ships they said were “connected with Israel,” disrupting global maritime trade in this strategic region.
The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, who say they are acting in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, recently claimed responsibility for attacking about 100 ships since the start of their operations.
Washington, Israel’s main ally, formed a multinational coalition in December to “protect” maritime traffic without succeeding in stopping the attacks.
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Mysterious ground cracks south of Tripoli raise concern
The National Unity Government opened an investigation after mysterious ground cracks appeared in the municipality of Al-Subaia, south of the capital, Tripoli. Citizens reported them and demanded to know their causes.
The Ministry of Environment said, in a statement on Monday, that a team affiliated with it visited the region and closely examined the phenomenon of ground cracks, adding that a report will be prepared and referred to the competent authorities in the Ministry to find out their causes and the extent of their danger.
For its part, the Ministry of Local Government announced that a team affiliated with it moved directly to the area of the cracks to explore and study the phenomenon occurring, and to identify all the sites that witnessed cracks or subsidence, collect the necessary information to understand the geological nature of the area, and investigate the history of the phenomenon from the people.
Pictures and video clips circulating on social media, filmed from inside one of the farms in the Al-Subaia area, showed deep and long cracks in the ground, in an unprecedented phenomenon that occurred suddenly, which raised the astonishment and concern of residents, and raised broad questions about the causes of these deep cracks.
The Municipal Council of Al-Subay’a said that these ground cracks appeared in several locations and reached a depth of 4 meters and a width of 3 meters at different distances, indicating that it formed a team to identify this phenomenon and find out its causes by studying the sites and taking samples from them. (Al-Arabiya)
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