A crisis over using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine

London is the setting of this week’s first important meeting in the interminable succession of summits that now attend the war in Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky is flying in to meet, on December 8th, Friedrich Merz of Germany, Emmanuel Macron of France and Sir Keir Starmer of Britain. The leaders of the so-called e3 have of late become . But this week’s most pressing choices regarding Ukraine’s future are being made in Brussels—not in its capacity as the seat of the European