European Union leaders will turn on Friday from celebration over Ukraine’s start on the road to membership of their bloc to consternation over Russia’s squeeze on their gas supplies, soaring prices and sputtering economies. On the second day of a summit in Brussels, the leaders of the 27 nations will place the blame for a spike in inflation and sagging growth across the globe squarely on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that began four months ago to the day. They will also call on the EU’s executive to come up with energy supply solutions in response to Moscow’s “weaponisation” of gas imports now that a dozen European countries have been thumped by cuts in critical supplies from Russia.
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