En un momento en el que parece crecer la cercanía entre Trump y Putin, Reino Unido y Francia han prometido reunir una coalición para conseguir un acuerdo de paz entre Ucrania y Rusia.
Europeans would need to ramp up military spending quickly, a notion that has set off a market rally, led by defense stocks.
President Trump’s threat to abandon Ukraine added urgency to plans to fund security or reconstruction with the roughly $300 billion owned by Russia’s central bank.
European leaders have been working to support Ukraine and beef up their own defenses. But the blowup between President Trump and Ukraine’s president on Friday made those goals more urgent.