Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ramping up pressure on Western allies to speed up the delivery of military aid as Russia gets ready to launch a fresh offensive in Ukraine’s east. After months of setbacks, Russia’s military has been focusing on capturing the strategic city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region ahead of the conflict’s first anniversary on Friday next week. As NATO member country’s Defence ministers met in Brussels this week, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg backed Zelensky’s calls but said providing fighter jets was “not the most urgent issue”. He says allies will deliver “what has always been promised”, including armoured tanks and ammunition. It comes as a new US study has found at least 6,000 Ukrainian children have been detained in ‘re-education’ camps in Russia and its annexed territories over the past year to “deny and suppress Ukraine’s identity, history, and culture”.