Zelenskiy asks gathering of European leaders for security guarantees

Ukrainian president addresses first meeting of the European Political Community in Prague attended by leaders of 44 countries

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has appealed to European leaders across the continent for security guarantees in support of his bid to join Nato, as he described Russia as the most anti-European state in the world".

Addressing leaders attending the first meeting of the European Political Community, a gathering that brought together almost every nation on the continent except Russia and Belarus, Zelenskiy urged them to support Ukraine in their own self-interest.