The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner, who appeared on BBC Breakfast, said he believes Mr Zelensky will again ask the West for arms deliveries. He said that while “Russia uses massive amounts of artillery to flatten Ukraine,” Mr Zelensky will be desperate for NATO to “deliver” the promised supplies to fend off Russian forces. Speaking from Madrid, Spain, where the three-day NATO summit is being held, he added that the meeting will still have to deal with tensions between Sweden and Turkey over the housing of what the latter nation considers Kurdish “terrorists”.
When asked what President Zelensky would say to the G7 leaders, Mr. Gardner said, “‘More guns and hurry!’
“They are fighting a losing battle in the Donbas. They have lost Severodonetsk, Lychansk is surrounded. I think they will probably lose that.
“So they don’t have enough firepower to push back the Russians, who are very dependent on massive artillery support.
“The Russians don’t have a lot of infantry fighting compared to the early stages. They are simply using massive amounts of artillery to flatten the Ukrainian positions.
And the Ukrainians say, ‘Look, you promised all these things. We appreciate what you’ve given us, but can you please hurry up and deliver it?’”
Mr Gardner added: “[Sweden and Finland] are shocked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And it’s not that simple.
“When Sweden and Finland announced they would join, NATO said, ‘Great. We welcome them with open arms. They are exactly the kind of people we want.
“The problem facing Sweden and Finland, especially Sweden, is that there is a very large Kurdish community, about 100,000, and Turkey refuses to give the green light. [to Nato accession] While Sweden is home to a number of people it considers to be effective terrorists.
“It doesn’t accept them as political activists, it wants them extradited to Turkey. NATO hoped they would have overcome these difficulties before the summit, but they failed to do so and it is a bottleneck.
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