There will be those who take issue with Zelensky’s swanning around foreign parts at such a time. There will also be those — some, if not many of them, in Russia — who hope that the coming days will, one way or the other, spell the end of Zelensky’s power.

For all the miss-steps and failings on the part of his Kyiv government, Zelensky is likely to be the person who has to try to shepherd Ukraine from war to peace, and needs to be supported as maybe the only one who can.

In retrospect, the catastrophic Oval Office press conference, where Zelensky was humiliated by the US president and his team, can be seen as a turning point of a kind, which rallied European officialdom and opinion behind him, just as popular enthusiasm for Ukraine’s cause was starting to fade.

Surprisingly, perhaps, wha

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