Europe realizes defeating Russia's summer offensive in Ukraine is key to its own defense — analyst

Political analyst Andrey Piontkovsky said this in an interview with the host of the Studio West program Antin Borkovskyi on Espreso TV.

“Ukraine has nothing to lose - it is fighting an existential war for its very survival. And today, Europe finds itself in the same position. Its eighty-year confidence that NATO would always protect it has crumbled. Europe can no longer count on what might happen with Trump tomorrow - Europe must defend itself. Europeans understand that defeating the Russian horde in the summer offensive of 2025 is about defending Europe itself - there is nowhere left to retreat,” he noted.

According to Piontkovsky, Ukraine and Europe are essentially in the same position right now.

“The only major difference is that the bulk of the defense of the European continent is being carried out by the heroic Ukrainian army, because Europe won’t be sending in new infantry divisions - it simply doesn’t have them. But what Europe does have is an air force. It can contribute its squadrons and pilots to this fight, which would fundamentally shift the situation on the battlefield. In short, Putin’s offensive plans are doomed to fail,” the political analyst concluded.