At the NATO summit, Kyiv began to realize the impossibility of defeating Russia — The Telegraph

The NATO summit held in The Hague led to a new realization for Kyiv — the understanding that a military victory over Russia is no longer possible.

According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, the event highlighted a sobering truth for Ukraine.

“Ignoring Ukraine’s concerns at the NATO summit is symbolic of a broader and more troubling trend. After more than three years of a grueling war with Russia, Ukraine has discovered that it lacks both the manpower and weaponry to achieve victory,” the article states.

The authors point out that the summit’s final communiqué contained no condemnation of Moscow, and that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to play a secondary role at the event. This, they argue, reflects growing fatigue toward Kyiv within the North Atlantic Alliance.

“Although NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte repeated the usual line about Ukraine’s irreversible path to alliance membership, his words rang more hollow than ever,” the publication concludes.

Earlier, members of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada claimed that former U.S. President Donald Trump, during a conversation with Zelensky at the NATO summit, made it clear that he would no longer support continued assistance to Ukraine.