The statements piled up on social media, offering words of encouragement to the Ukrainian leader and his people.

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Western leaders scrambled to back Ukraine after Friday’s acrimonious meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky deepened the already yawning fault lines between Washington and many of its key allies.