Unfortunately, this year's Munich Security Conference has brought not only positive signals for Ukraine.

Western diplomats finally understood and began actively supporting the idea that Russian aggression against Ukraine is not isolated but rather a war of the "axis of evil" against the collective West.

Instead of concentrated resistance to Putin, however, there are suggestions to disperse efforts across the world. Fortunately, not everyone shares this opinion. There were quite loud voices in Munich, trying to convince counterparts to wake up.

Read more about the discussions in Munich in the article by Sergiy Sydorenko, European Pravda's editor, who attended the conference – West is shaping world war. Why Munich-2024 was a wake-up call for Ukraine. Here is a brief summary.

The Munich Security Conference (MSC) of 2024 has shown that Russia's war against Ukraine is slowly moving to the background for many world politicians and diplomats.

The so-called Munich Report, the annual kind of audit of the international security situation, does not even include a separate section dedicated to Ukraine. It does not highlight Russian aggression as a separate challenge but rather integrates Russia's actions into the overall matrix of global events, suggesting that the world is entering a period of everyone against everyone, and Russian aggression is just one element and illustration of it.

There was much more fatalism at the Munich Conference. The West readiness to win was not felt.

Even the conference official motto sounded "Lose-lose," which means that everyone loses given the situation. Even though it had a question mark, instead of seeking ways for the West to gain the upper hand in the global confrontation, the MSC organisers set out to prove that all sides in all conflicts are heading towards mutual defeat.

Perhaps the main disappointment was the position of the current US administration.

A powerful delegation arrived from across the ocean.

There was enough signals of formal support for Ukraine. The official position on Kyiv has not changed either. But Ukraine clearly lost ground in the list of US priorities.

Thus, the Munich Conference has indicated an alarm for Ukraine but not a catastrophe.

Fortunately, the logic of mutual defeat at the conference didn't seem unacceptable to everyone.

Many European leaders dedicated their participation to bringing Ukraine and Russia's aggression back to the center of attention. To prove that Russia can indeed be defeated.

And just as the Ukrainian issue was revived, it became clear that Ukraine has many allies, primarily among European leaders.

But, unfortunately, not all of them.

"It seems that Europe lacks a sense of urgency, despite the fact that the situation on the front line is very difficult," said Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, among other things, at the beginning of her meeting with President Zelenskyy on the MSC sidelines. She promised to do everything to "push through the provision of necessary assistance right now, not in a year or six months."

And Frederiksen indeed fulfilled this promise.

The head of the Danish government became a star of discussions on Ukraine in Munich. She really had something to push her partners with.