Is the EU out of step with voters on Russia-Ukraine crisis?

Poll suggests Europeans want the bloc and Nato to fight alongside Kiev in confrontation with Moscow

Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev
Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following talks in Kiev on Tuesday
(Image credit: Volodymyr Tarasov/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

A majority of Europeans believe that Russia will invade Ukraine this year – and that Nato and the EU should stand by its eastern European ally in an armed conflict with Moscow, a continent-wide poll has found.

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