EU foreign ministers meeting in Kyiv on Monday (2 October) sought to debunk stories the West was tired of helping Ukraine.
The first event of its kind in EU diplomacy saw the ministers attend an "informal foreign-affairs council" in their neighbouring warzone.
Almost all of them wore lapel badges showing the Ukrainian flag inside a blue ring with gold stars, the colours of the EU flag, in what looked like a metaphor of EU protection or future enlargement.
But the Hungaria...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.