West forms anti-missile coalition with Ukraine
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- Western leaders agreed to form an anti-ballistic missile coalition with Ukraine, framed by The Guardian as a "coalition of the willing" building a shared European anti-ballistic programme.
- President Macron announced Ukraine will produce French missiles and ordered warplanes, per Reuters, as part of the broader coalition effort to counter Russian ballistic missiles.
Why it matters: The move converts verbal Western support into shared defense-industrial infrastructure — Ukraine producing French missiles domestically signals deeper, hardware-level integration with European partners rather than ad-hoc arms shipments.
