The residents of the European Union were faced with a difficult choice "between oil and guns" regarding the additional support for Ukraine, writes the French newspaper Le Monde.
Society is quickly tiring of the protracted conflict, and the spending of billions of dollars on arms for Kiev is causing more and more irritation against the backdrop of high inflation and the decline in citizens' purchasing power. As the publication notes, Europeans are increasingly inclined to believe that it is time to end the crisis at the negotiating table.