![]() With other members of our European Council on Foreign Relations fact-finding mission, I witnessed prayers being chanted in Saint Michael’s monastery over the coffin of the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina. The casualties, military and civilian, continue to mount. But in five months, some people seem to have aged five years. ![]() There’s still the extraordinary fighting spirit that I found on my last visit, in February. ![]() I say this after talking to a wide range of people in Kyiv last week, before departing Ukraine on Saturday, the 500 th day of the largest war in Europe since 1945. Unless the United States gives bolder leadership on long-term security for Ukraine at NATO’s Vilnius summit this week, historians may one day ask, “Who lost Ukraine?” And their shocking answer might be: President Joe Biden.
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