Letters: France should do more to support Ukraine

To the Editor,

I was struck by a BBC article on a recent crowdfunding campaign for Ukraine kickstarted by a 99-year-old World War II veteran and holocaust survivor:

The Slovak government has stopped funding Ukraine but in three days the public raised over €2million. The campaign ran under the slogan: ‘If the Government Won’t – We Will.’

Despite public statements of support for Ukraine, France, the third largest European country after Russia and Ukraine, is only the 15th largest donor, just ahead of the much smaller Czech Republic. 

The EU has donated less than half of the artillery shells promised to Ukraine. Ukraine is running desperately short of weapons and defence systems.

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I do not have the social media skills to launch a crowdfunding campaign but I have no doubt some of The Connexion’s readers and staff do know how to do this.

So can we put the French government to shame and help Ukraine when it needs it most?

The most recent figures for donor countries around the world are here.

Louis James, by email

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