Media Statement of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine

For immediate release

October 26, 2025

“While some European governments remain half-hearted and wavering in their support for Ukraine, the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) is seeing growing support for the petition it has initiated (“Ukraine must receive all that it needs to win a just peace!”)

ENSU interim coordinator Szymon Martys made this comment after Belgian prime minister Bart De Wever last Friday  derailed European Union plans to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion to the tune of €140 billion.

“The situation for Ukraine is critical,” Martys continued. “According to the Keil Institute, military aid to Ukraine declined by 43% in July and August. Europe is reducing its military support when Russia is intensifying its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, schools, hospitals and rail network, and is also preparing a major offensive.”

“This deadly decline in support must stop”, Martys emphasised. “Every decision to delay aid only helps Putin. ENSU–also through the petition it has initiated–is totally committed to arousing European public opinion to this critical danger.”

The ENSU spokesperson concluded: “Ukraine’s resistance to Putin enjoys the support of democratic Europe as a whole. So let Europe’s sorely needed aid to Ukraine increase and flow fully and without delay.”

Interviews: info@ukraine-solidarity.eu

NOTE: Recent well-known signatories of the petition initiated by ENSU  include eminent Ukrainian-American historian Serhii Plovkhi, Australian Sharan Burrow, the former General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, and Peter Tatchell, well-known activist for LGBTI rights.