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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Sam Kiley

As Trump sneers at Nato, Zelensky builds alliances and offers modern warfare

No longer the president of a victim nation, Volodymyr Zelensky came to London as a leader offering the West the tools for victory – building alliances while Donald Trump was simultaneously shattering them in Washington.

No longer simply pleading for help against the full-scale Russian war, Zelensky brought an iPad to Westminster to show real-time Ukrainian battlefield feeds. These enable his forces to shoot down “87-90 per cent” of drone and missile attacks, mostly with home-grown weapons.

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