ANALYSIS: If the president leads Ukraine to victory, there will be statues of him in Europe. If he loses, all of it will be for nothing.
: The Grand Prince Hotel in Hiroshima is as far as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been from the war in Ukraine. Its foyer is filled with an enormous golden Japanese fan and a fountain with a bonsai tree in its centre. Aides scurry between panoramic rooms overlooking the Seto Inland Sea.
“Death fell from the sky, death came from the sea. What your people have seen in their history: instead of the normal life of thousands and thousands of families, only ashes remain. Instead of cities, there is a scorched wasteland,” he said. If he loses, all of it will be for naught. The war in Ukraine is now entering a perilous new phase. Russia appears to have won Bakhmut. Ukraine wants to launch a summer counter-offensive, but it is running out of weapons. Zelensky’s appeals to the G7 are becoming more urgent. And he is running out of patience with neutral countries like India, Brazil and China.Zelensky has a powerful ally in the G7.
The French military plane then flew he and his entourage over Chinese airspace to Tokyo. One official told Reuters it was striking how tired the Ukrainians seemed. They used the 15-hour trip to sleep, before landing to secure F-16 fighter jet training and procurement deals with the US and UK. Some of these countries are enabling Russia to avoid G7 sanctions by buying and selling into the Russian market, prolonging the length of the war.
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