Russia’s Ukraine war is out of the headlines because the world’s attention is now fully on the Iran war. It is also because the Ukraine war has gone on for fifty months and inevitably a sense of ennui sets in the international community even about wars. This is especially because the frontlines in Ukraine are more or less stable and the prospects of dramatic developments on the battlefield are low. The world therefore seems to have moved on though for the Ukrainians it is a different situation altogether – they continue to fight the Russian aggression and have not accepted that around 20% of their land is now in their neighbour’s control. The Europeans too have not accepted the current status quo; their military and financial support for Ukraine continues. The hold put by Hungary on a EU financial package of Euro 90 billion to Ukraine to augment its finances and enable it to fight on was lifted by it following the defeat of Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the elections held on April 12.

This would have come as a relief to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky who is naturally upset that global interest in his country’s plight has weakened. In a conversation with an international news agency on April 22 Zelensky said that it was important not to forget about Ukraine because there was a “full scale invasion and big war on the........

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