"When I look at the plan, I see the decisions we, the West, were not able to deliver in the past months or even years," said Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda at the beginning of the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had one hour to promote what he is calling his "victory plan" to 27 EU leaders. He reiterated the five points he had already presented to the Ukrainian parliament the day before.
No new decisions on his key demand that his country should be allowed to join the Western military alliance NATO are likely to be made at the summit in Brussels nor at the NATO defense ministers meeting simultaneously taking place in the Belgian capital.
Lithuania's Nauseda would be in favor of accepting Ukraine as a NATO member. Other countries, above all the alliance's leading power, the United States, have rejected this, arguing that the risk of a direct conflict with the nuclear power Russia would be too great.
Zelenskyy once again demanded that his Western allies finally allow the use of longer-range weapons so that Ukraine could attack targets in Russia. He said it was important to bring "the war back into Russia, so that Russians can feel what war is like and begin to hate [Russian President Vladimir] Putin for it," said the president, who has been leading........