Volodymyr Zelensky has just addressed a packed Westminster Hall thanking Britons for their ‘grit and character’. Ukraine’s triumph would be the ‘greatest victory of our lifetimes’, he said, and show ‘the new reality of the free world’ – that ‘any aggressor is going to lose’. He pleaded with MPs for fighter jets, presenting them with the helmet of one of Ukraine’s most successful pilots. On it was written: ‘We have freedom, give us wings to protect it.’ He finished his speech saying: ‘I will be leaving parliament today, thanking you in advance for powerful English planes.’
Boris Johnson – who has focused most of his post-No. 10 interventions on Ukraine – was in the audience (and was thanked in Zelensky’s speech) but it’s not yet clear if they’ll meet today.
And the subtext of his trip? Zelensky said he wants to go ‘deep into occupied territories’ but as my colleague Svitalana Morenets explains,
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