Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky warned this week that peace talks will end if Moscow "eliminates" the city's defenders. But efforts to articulate the West's longer-term war aims — beyond the near-term goal of helping Ukraine survive — have been hit-and-miss. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, right, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walk past a checkpoint after a meeting in Kyiv on April 9. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Reuters)Giving up Ukrainian territory would be politically toxic for any Ukrainian leader, even for the immensely popular Zelensky. It is that this is a war against the West, because the Ukrainians don't exist anyway.

Source: CBC News April 20, 2022 18:30 UTC