Warning from Europe's defence chief as more nations line up to send more tanks to help Ukraine

Russia is now engaged in ‘a war against Nato and the West’, the European Union’s defence chief said yesterday as Canada became the 12th country to commit tanks to Ukraine.

Stefano Sannino, the secretary general of the EU’s external action service, suggested Vladimir Putin had moved beyond his initial ‘special military operation’ and was ‘moving the war into a different stage’.

Mr Sannino was speaking as Canada became the latest country to pledge tanks and Poland said it would…