A t a crucial juncture when US President Donald Trump seems to be too eager to make Ukraine a sacrificial lamb to the aggrandisement of Russian President Vladimir Putin, three European countries – the UK, France and Germany – made a reassuring gesture by organising a summit of sorts in London December 8 to throw their weight behind Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz held talks with Zelenskyy.

The meeting came in the wake of US efforts to get Kyiv and Moscow to sign up quickly to a plan to end the war in Ukraine. Kyiv is in an existential crisis as the US brokered plan wants it to cede territory to Russia. While Ukraine doggedly opposes the idea of forking out its own territory,

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