Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy embarked on a European tour to drum up aid, winning a British pledge to train Ukrainian pilots on advanced NATO fighter jets, a big step up in Western military support.
last year, he met British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and addressed parliament in London.
Two years ago he had left the British parliament thanking lawmakers for the "delicious English tea," Zelenskyy said. Now he would leave "thanking you in advance for powerful English planes." Zelenskyy's tour of Europe follows a surprise visit to Washington in December, and the choreography of meeting the British, French and German leaders the same day was a sign of his assiduous care in cultivating Western leaders and opinion.
Germany's Scholz, speaking to lawmakers in Berlin, said he expected strong demonstrations of support for Ukraine from this week's EU summit, and a new round of European sanctions on Russia around the anniversary of the invasion. "They need to have something to show before their people, and have a major desire to do something big, as they see it, by this date," Ukrainian national security chief Oleksiy Danilov told Reuters on Tuesday.
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