Russia Ukraine War Updates: Qatar has diplomatic and energy potential as a result of the Ukraine crisis.

Due to US tensions with other Gulf Arab governments, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has offered up political and financial possibilities for gas producer Qatar to extend energy supplies to the West and strengthen its partnership with Washington.

Qatar has taken a generally neutral posture in the dispute, but it has signaled by its reaction that it may provide major diplomatic and economic aid to Western friends, despite its efforts to avoid taking sides.