内容摘要：Alderney was almost deserted when the Germans arrived and the invaders were able to build and fortify the island.

Alderney was almost deserted when the Germans arrived and the invaders were able to build and fortify the island.

“I don’t think they support us, I don’t think they care,” he says. I ask him if he feels angry about this.“Yeah’, he replies, then quickly tells me he’s getting agitated. “They don’t treat us right.”

Nicola Hurst is even blunter. She wants politicians to “do their job”.EU leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday for a special council on defence, as France's President Emmanuel Macron warned that the continent was at a "turning point of history".As well as rearmament, leaders are expected to discuss how the body can further support Kyiv in the face of US President Donald Trump's announcement on Monday that he would suspend military aid to Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is invited to the summit.

Nerves have grown increasingly frayed across Europe since, and the rhetoric around Thursday's summit leaves no doubt about the importance EU officials are ascribing to it.

Three years on since

, the Trump administration's overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin have left many in Europe concerned the continent would not be able to rely on US support for its security.Russia and Ukraine have ramped up their attacks as US President Donald Trump attempts to bring them together to strike a ceasefire deal to end the more than three years of fighting.

Last month, Ukraine agreed to accept a US proposal for an initial 30-day ceasefire, following talks in Saudi Arabia, while Russia has still to make a decision.The attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv came hours before French and British military chiefs arrived in Kyiv to discuss the the possibility of allied troops being deployed to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.

In March, allied countries met in the UK to discuss ending the war and defending Ukraine from Russia with a"There will be at some point a need for military capacity or reassurance, whenever peace is reached," the French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, said on Friday.