Nigeria, June 22 -- Whatever the high-minded rhetoric and spirited calls to guarding civilisation against oriental barbarism, the ongoing support and funding of Ukraine in its military struggle with Russia, is becoming a less than harmonious one. A hard sceptic of the Kyiv Appreciation Society in the form of Hungary's former Prime Minister Viktor Orban may have been vanquished in recent domestic elections, but European doubters did not dissipate with his defeat. Most telling of all is the increasingly fractious relationship between Poland and Ukraine, countries awkwardly, even tenuously aligned in their grievances against Russia.

Initial solidarity for Ukraine's cause in Poland following the February 2022 Russian invasion was palpable. ...