ukraine s defense of itself and also is providing more military support in the black sea simply just nothing has worked so far without the willingness of moscow to get its forces out of eastern ukraine president selenski said he was going to be asking for more support from brussels to end this war but it remains to be seen if he gets any further pledges and again without a commitment from the kremlin this war is not going to end regardless of how much support he gets from the e.u. or from nato well on a related note terry ukraine pursuing a pro western path isn t likely to go down well with the kremlin our leader is worried about blowback from russia if they encourage t.f. into forging closer ties with the a west because we remember last time that didn t go well. well president poroshenko president selenski predecessor also had ukraine on a firm path toward the west so that s not really any different they do have