India, July 14 -- Ukraine and nine other countries on Monday announced they were forming a coalition to protect Europe from ballistic missiles, taking advantage of Kyiv's experience of fighting Russia's full-scale invasion for over four years.

"Our goal is to build a shared ballistic missile defense capability for Europe," the 10 nations said in a statement in Paris at talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy was in Paris asking two dozen European leaders for help developing measures against Russia's ballistic missiles, which have pummeled his country. Europe is wary of Moscow's wider ambitions on the continent.

Zelenskyy and the leaders of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and ...