A meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization kicks off in Brussels, with the US-led defence alliance’s foreign ministers set to discuss NATO’s ongoing backing for Ukraine against Russia amid doubts over US support and a bloody stalemate on the ground. There are fears that a lack of adequate support from the West — at a time that it is distracted by the Israel-Hamas war — could end up forcing Kyiv to seek a compromise with Russian President Vladimir Putin from a position of weakness. IMAGES