Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expecting an offensive by the Russian army in early summer. He is therefore once again asking the USA and other Western allies for urgent military help.
Ukraine most urgently needs American Patriot anti-aircraft systems and additional artillery. Poland's government sees Europe as having arrived in the “pre-war period”. For Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Europe is already on the way to a new war. “I don’t want to scare anyone, but we have to get used to the fact that a new era has begun,” he said.