LONG-RANGE MISSILES
Zelenskyy did score wins elsewhere. French President Emmanuel Macron said Paris would start supplying long-range cruise missiles, following a similar announcement by Britain. These will allow Ukrainian forces to hit Russian troops and supplies deep behind the front lines.
Germany announced new aid worth €700 million, including two Patriot air defence missile launchers, and more tanks and fighting vehicles.
The summit was also buoyed by the prospect of Sweden joining NATO as its newest member after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday abruptly dropped his objections to the move, while pushing to revive talks for Türkiye to join the European Union.
Moscow, which has cited NATO's eastern expansion as a factor in its decision to invade Ukraine, has criticised the two-day summit ending on Wednesday and warned Europe would be the first to face "catastrophic consequences" should the war escalate.
"Potentially, this issue (of Ukraine joining NATO) is very dangerous for European security ... and therefore those who will make the decision must be aware of this," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
European leaders did not seem to understand that moving NATO military infrastructure towards Russia's borders was a mistake, he said.
At the rally in Vilnius, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda handed Zelenskyy a bullet-holed Ukrainian flag which had been flown on a Ukrainian tank during battles in Bakhmut.
"Ukraine is buying us time with their blood, so we can prepare and give a strong retort to Russia," Nauseda told the crowd.
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