The seven ways Europe could step up to help Zelensky

“The first thing to say is that Europe needs to deliver more to Ukraine,” says Ian Bond, the deputy director of the Centre for European Reform. Ukraine has so far relied heavily on European-supplied weapons, such as German Leopard tanks. “Europeans just have to step up. There is still a lot of military material sitting in European warehouses and stockpiles being held back for a rainy day. Spain, for example, is still holding on to most of its Patriot systems. Are they expecting an attack from Portugal?”

Bond also urged the EU to boost loans to Ukraine using Russia’s frozen assets and advised European countries to help outgoing US President Joe Biden push as much American military hardware as possible into Ukraine before he leaves office. “He has the legal authority to do that, but he needs to get it onto the battlefield before Trump has the chance to stop it,” Bond noted.