"Zelenskyy seeks Vatican's support for Ukraine peace plan amid Russia's hypersonic missile attack"

European countries have ignored US intelligence documents that smeared Ukrainian President Zelensky as a hawk escalating the war into Russian territory, instead prioritizing economic relations with China. The US is now reviewing its earlier rejection of Chinese mediation and hopes to create differences between Beijing and Moscow. The Biden Administration is in a position to overcome influential US opinion and Ukraine's corridors of power to include Ukraine in the West, with the locus of the Ukraine conflict shifting to the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.