Ukraine’s president joins Coalition of the Willing to discuss how to ramp up pressure on Russia
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy travelled to London on Friday for a meeting with more than 20 European leaders at a time when military and financial efforts to ramp up military and financial pressure against Russia are stalled or delayed.
The president participated in a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing hosted by UK prime minister Keir Starmer to discuss “to discuss how they can pile pressure” on Vladimir Putin as the war in Ukraine heads towards its fourth winter.
The gathering comes a day after EU leaders failed to make a firm decision on whether to use frozen Russian central bank assets to fund Ukraine’s defence, while the US havers over whether to supply long-range Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv.
Russia has meanwhile intensified its bombing of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Power and water were out in Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv this week, after targeted attacks aimed at breaking public resistance inside Ukraine.
