president biden took place when president biden was in office. we are more used to closer diplomatic partnership between kyiv and washington. now it seems there is a renewed focus on restoring ties between moscow and washington. i think the concern is that could be done sort of you know in a way putting europe and ukraine on the back foot. i think there is a concern that president trump is

prioritising the relationship with russia over the other countries. it is a switch in foreign policy and something that some people in washington worry, a lot officials, career officials i should say, worry could leave the rest of europe and ukraine isolated. haw and ukraine isolated. how difficult is _ and ukraine isolated. how difficult is it _ and ukraine isolated. how difficult is it as _ and ukraine isolated. how difficult is it as a - and ukraine isolated. how| difficult is it as a journalist to cover this when you get a lot of mixed messaging from the president trump administration and the president himself, to work out what is actual lay change in policy? it work out what is actual lay change in policy?- work out what is actual lay change in policy? it is clear, i notice a — change in policy? it is clear, i notice a clear— change in policy? it is clear, i notice a clear shift - change in policy? it is clear, i notice a clear shift in - i notice a clear shift in policy. we know that president trump and the administration are walking a fine line and they understand that you know a lot of people from the president's own republican still very much party here are still very much pro—ukraine, including some of his staunchest allies in the us house and the senate. but it is clear that there has been a shift, it has been a notable

shift, it has been a notable shift from the biden administration and it started with that post on truth social

but 77 prime 5 72777 there is a peace deal, which in my view is getting ahead of himself by a long way. we have , my. w no peace deal. russia doesn't even look like that it wants peace. itjust wants peace. it just wants concessions peace. itjust wants concessions from the us, probably sanctions, so we have a long way to go with this yet. to 2—229: ’7" but if the europeans don't understand that they have got to be involved in deterrence now, by showing that they're ready to fight, not just ready

i1t36§§3fiw7fi real-“1.75 .;f—;;':: 1—55; . to do something later then we could be in deeper trouble. what could that deterrence look like if they can agree on it? first, we have far more aircraft than russia's got. we could easily put in air policing... sorry, air defence with aircraft over west ukraine for example, that would free up a lot of assets for ukraine. and allow them to base their own aircraft in western ukraine freery. we could put troops on the ground facing bell russia. there are things we could do on the ground as europe without getting into the fighting. because i don't think that putin will want to be fighting with us. but if we don't do

something and we don't get better, putin will bide his time and come and get us, i'm sorry but he will do that. i was looking at russian media coverage, absolute glee about the change from the united states and the fact that relations could be restored. you have been a defence attachaway in the baltics, how worried are they?— worried are they? very. not “ust the worried are they? very. not just the baltic _ worried are they? very. not just the baltic states, - worried are they? very. not just the baltic states, but i just the baltic states, but finland and sweden specially are sweating on this heavily. and preparing at a much greater rate and much harder rate and more realistic rate than we are in the uk. or germany or spain or anybody else in the southern region. so i think russia is right to be gleeful, because they're getting all

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at the moment a fair amount of cloud across the uk, some spots of rain, so wintry weather across scotland, but sunny skies across east anglia and the south—east. temperatures to end the afternoon still on the side, typically around five celsius. this evening some clear skies, across the midlands and maybe parts of wales, cloudy skies to the north and then the next weather front moves in, bringing wet weather overnight to northern ireland, reaching scotland with some snow developing across the hills, maybe some freezing rain here and there. temperatures early in the morning on tuesday typically around freezing, but in northern ireland, starting to turn that bit milder.