India, Jan. 22 -- The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was quite candid in his address in Davos, Switzerland, where he cut through the rhetoric on the state of diplomacy in the region, leaving a stark reality for Europe to face. It's been nearly four years since the Russian-Ukraine conflict, which put the region in crisis, but the European forces are yet to acquire the strength on their own to stage a war on the same grounds, he said, adding that they will once again be forced to turn to the U.S.

Zelensky told world leaders that there has been a time that most states in Europe did not attain the simplest of defence spending targets until pressure was applied. According to NATO statistics, only 11 out of 31 countries reached the 2% ...