'It is urgent': European leaders appeal for greater support for Ukraine as Russia makes major gain

• The West is suffering a "colossal failure of imagination" in thinking Russia's war in Ukraine will not hit them next, defense policymakers heard at Munich Security Conference.
• "The sense of urgency is simply not clear enough," Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, joining European leaders in calling for more arms for Ukraine as the war enters its third year.
• Hillary Clinton said "reality should have overcome" any pushback from the U.S. House in funding more support for the war-torn country.

MUNICH, Germany — The West is suffering a "colossal failure of imagination" in thinking Russia's war in Ukraine will not hit them next, European policymakers have been told amid calls for a doubling down of transatlantic support for Kyiv.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen criticized a waning sense of urgency among delegates at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday as Moscow's full-scale offensive nearly enters its third year.

"The sense of urgency is simply not clear enough in our discussions," Frederiksen told a lunchtime session. "We have to speed up and we have to scale up."

Frederiksen called out Europe's claims of production constraints as a reason for failing to provide more military assistance to Ukraine, noting that the continent has existing stockpiles it could and should share.

"This is not only a question about production because we have weapons, we have ammunitions, we have air defense that we don't have to use ourselves at the moment, that we should deliver to Ukraine," she said.

Denmark has now donated its entire artillery to Ukraine, Frederiksen said, urging other countries to do the same as the war marks its second anniversary on Feb. 24.

"On Saturday, there should be new deliveries," she said.