NEW YORK, December 16. /TASS/. The volume of aid that Europe pledged to provide to Ukraine is drastically less than what it actually delivered, Marc Champion said in his opinion column for Bloomberg.

For example, he cites information from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany, according to which, the West had provided aid amounting to 125 billion euros, "that still leaves Europe €64 billion in arrears."

In his opinion, there is "the sense that western support — and therefore the weapons and ammunition needed to survive at the front, let alone win — is in increasingly short supply."

Earlier, Bloomberg reported that individual donations by Ukrainians to the needs of the country’s armed forces had sharply dropped amid economic troubles and the population’s growing fatigue with military actions.

Pessimistic attitudes in the country are rising against the backdrop of the successful advance of Russian forces, the government’s failing mobilization attempts, and rolling blackouts. Additionally, the situation is worsened by concerns that US President-elect Donald Trump will make good on his promise to significantly cut support for the Kiev regime.