Westerners face the “impasse’ of the war in Ukraine. US military aid to kyiv, worth $60 billion, remains blocked in the House of Representatives.

This weekend, due to a lack of Western ammunition, the Ukrainian army withdrew from Avdiivka. The concomitance of these events plunged the Munich Security Conference into confusion and uncertainty. “It’s like we’re at a dead end,” summarized Dan Smith, director of the Stockholm Institute for Research.