So far, the war in Ukraine has largely been left out of international climate negotiations. Russia traditionally keeps a low profile at all UN summits, and Ukraine, as a comparatively small player, does not play a major role. On Monday at the Interim Climate Change Conference (SB58) in Bonn, however, the conflict did come out into the open and escalated in a diplomatic sense. The delegations of many European countries left the room together with Australia and the USA.