Zeyphr West Embedded Project Debug Error

I am following the official CLion + Zephyr tutorial documented here:
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/zephyr.html

I successfully created a Zephyr project using CLion’s built-in Zephyr support. The project builds correctly, and pressing the Run button flashes the firmware to my board without any issues.

However, when I press the Debug button, CLion fails immediately with the following error:

Error running 'West'
Cannot run program "west.exe"
(in directory "C:\Users\umut\zephyrproject\zephyr\samples\basic\blinky"):
CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified.

It seems CLion cannot locate west.exe when starting the debug session, even though:

• I can run west from a terminal without problems.
• Building and flashing via Run works correctly.
• The toolchain and Zephyr environment variables appear to be configured properly for building.

My environment details:

• Board: NUCLEO-WB55RG
• OS: Windows 11
• Zephyr version: sdk-0.17.4
• CLion version: 2025.3

Any guidance or recommended configuration steps would be appreciated.

Additional Information

When I run the following command from a regular terminal (PowerShell):

west debug

the debug session starts successfully. OpenOCD runs, GDB connects, symbols load, and I can debug in terminal without any issues.

Example output:

-- west debug: rebuilding
ninja: no work to do.
-- west debug: using runner openocd
-- runners.openocd: OpenOCD GDB server running on port 3333; no thread info available
GNU gdb (Zephyr SDK 0.17.4) 12.1
...
--Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--