‘IT MUST COME FASTER’: On the eve of today’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued another urgent plea for more weapons to retake eastern territory lost to Russia and to defend against Russian missile attacks that are taking a toll on civilians in the western parts of the country, including Lviv and Ternopil.

“We keep telling our partners that Ukraine needs modern anti-missile weapons. Our country does not have it at a sufficient level yet, but it is our country in Europe that needs such weapons most right now,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address.