Ukraine<\/a> on a path to membership Friday, a symbolic boost for a country fending off a Russian onslaught that is killing civilians, flattening cities and threatening its very survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn another show of Western support, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv to offer continued aid and military training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The European allies’ latest embrace of Ukraine marked another setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched his war nearly four months ago, hoping to pull his ex-Soviet neighbor away from the West and back into Russia\u2019s sphere of influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At Russia\u2019s showpiece economic forum in St. Petersburg on Friday, Putin said Moscow \u201chas nothing against\u201d Ukraine joining the EU, because it \u201cisn’t a military organization, a political organization like NATO.\u201d He also reprised his usual defense of the war, alleging it was necessary to protect people in parts of eastern Ukraine controlled by Moscow-backed rebels and to ensure Russia\u2019s own security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johnson\u2019s trip to Kyiv followed one Thursday by the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Romania, who pledged to support Ukraine without asking it to make any territorial concessions to Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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