Nato faces a tricky summit focused on Ukraine as Kyiv presses to join the alliance, Katya Adler writes.
- as Camille Grand, ex-Nato and now defence expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, puts it. A clear pledge from the West that they're in it for the long haul. And that Russia shouldn't believe it can out-wait the West over Ukraine.
"Moscow had a long, long time to prepare for this invasion," one ambassador told me. "And we now expect Ukraine to have dramatic success in three or four weeks? That's just unrealistic." "We're giving them important military support, increasingly more sophisticated and they - and Moscow - need to know it's going to keep on coming."
Ultimately no-one in Nato is questioning the need to support Ukraine in the short, medium and long term. Right now, it has a blank-ish cheque for its counter-offensive.
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