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In Estonia, a four-story banner that combines the flags of Ukraine and Estonia hangs over a main square in the capital, Tallinn. In Latvia, Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins is calling for allies to ramp up military support to Ukraine without delay.

And the leader of Lithuania, where President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine began a tour of Baltic States on Wednesday, recently made a pointed plea to help Kyiv hold the line against invading Russian forces as support for Ukraine in the war elsewhere in Europe threatens to fragment.

For all those saying they are tired of war in Ukraine a reminder by the terrorist Russia that theres no limit to its brutality & thirst for blood, President Gitanas Nauseda of Lithuania wrote on the social media platform X on Dec. 29, hours after a Russian barrage of missiles and drones slammed into cities across Ukraine.

Almost nowhere is the emotional investment for Ukraines war effort stronger than in the Baltics, where the three former Soviet states declared independence at the end of the Cold War to escape Russias grip. Mr. Zelenskys trip there this week, an early diplomatic foray of 2024, comes as he tries to rally support for his war effort from a bastion of political backing while other European nations show increasing fatigue and financial distress from a war that began nearly two years ago.

Mr. Zelensky said on Wednesday that his trip, which will also take him to Tallinn in Estonia and Riga in Latvia, was meant to show Ukraines gratitude for the uncompromising support for Ukraine since 2014 and especially now, during Russias full-scale aggression.

Pavlo Klimkin, a former foreign minister of Ukraine, said the trip was intended to engage our friends who are close to us in their understanding of Russia to push for assistance in D.C., in Brussels, because this assistance is critical for us now.

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