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    Analysis: 'Love fest' for Zelenskyy in Europe shows worries over 2024 US presidential race

    BERLIN -- It was a joking remark, but a telling one. Standing alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in the midst of a whirlwind tour of Western European capitals, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made note of Berlin's role as the second-largest supplier of overall assistance to Ukraine, surpassed only by Washington. "I think we're going to work on making Germany supporter No. 1," he ...
    by Laura King, Los Angeles Times May 15, 2023 4 minutes
    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, shake hands during the Charlemagne Prize ceremony in the town hall on Sunday, May 14, 2023, in Aachen, Germany.

    BERLIN -- It was a joking remark, but a telling one.

    Standing alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in the midst of a whirlwind tour of Western European capitals, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made note of Berlin's role as the second-largest supplier of overall assistance to Ukraine, surpassed only by Washington.

    "I think we're going to work on making Germany supporter No. 1," he said, as Scholz smiled along with him.

    The seemingly lighthearted exchange, during Zelenskyy's visit on Sunday to Germany — one of a rapid three-day succession of stops that also took him to Italy, to France and, on Monday, to Britain — belied a sense of grim urgency as Russia's war on Ukraine enters a potentially pivotal phase.

    Ukraine's scramble for of February 2022, is increasingly shadowed by worries over a heretofore unthinkable scenario — one in which the United States would no longer be Ukraine's chief patron.

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