but kyiv is fully under control of ukrainian armed forces. the national guards and territorial defense. even though the situation remains tense, because we heard from mr. putin's speech that his goal is to attack all of ukrainian capture kyiv, and his goal is to have a russian government in kyiv. now, all three of those we ukrainians believe is not only not possible, but we will do everything possible to prevent that from happening. >> [indiscernible] could you kind of stay there -- [indiscernible] amb. markarova: president zelensky is in kyiv. he regularly records messages from kyiv. he intends to stay there, and our armed forces also intense as well as all people who live in kyiv to feel free to defend our capital. reporter: [indiscernible] what exactly does your government believe -- [indiscernible] amb. markarova: the only thing i can say now is what our president says, that at any stage we are ready to -- of course for peace talks, but we are not ready to capitulate or surrender. when we have, or if we have more information about that, b

we want to build the oldest of the german armed forces. a has already expanded its support for the eastern european later partners. and for this important signal, i want to thank the german ministry of defense, lithuania, where we are leading the response task that we have increased our troops. and in romania we have expanded our air pollution trip as well. we want to set up a new task force industry, backyard. our navy is helping with additional ships when it comes to ensuring and policing, the north sea and the mediterranean. and we are prepared to be involved with air forces in defending the air space near the russian border and above the eastern european countries. one's lives, or dobbins, or the arm, and his soldiers are men and women who have not had much time to prepare for these comp operations. let me say. and on behalf of all of you here, i am sure, thank you duncan for you. thank you. god for your important service. when in these dark days accepts ladies and gentlemen, which is based on the mosque change that you put in for your

it means to have a modern progressive german armed forces. understand that we can protect us in legal munich, security conference. a week ago, i said we need to for air craft. we need ships and we'd soldiers who are well equipped, ideally equipped for their missions. that's what it's about your voice broke. and this, some lord can be done the door for a country as big as we are as important as we are in europe. william mills before but let's not kid ourselves. it better equipment. holsted figure, more personnel. all of this costs a lot of money. i'm so and for that industry, we will set up a special fund before the german armed forces and i am grateful to german finance minister lynn. now for his support in this the one is also widely once 12022 german budgets will have 100000000000 euros earmarked for this as a one off. and this money will be used for investment in the german armed forces. event wound on yard from now on year for year. more than 2 percent of our g d. p will be invested in defense in in london. and ladies and gentlemen and i

it means to have a modern progressive german armed forces. wonderful that we can protect us in legal and munich security conference. a week ago, i said, we need to for air craft. we need ships, and we'd soldiers who are well equipped, ideally equipped for their missions. that's what it's about, your voice broke, and this some lord can be done with the door for a country as big as we are as important as we are in europe. meals before, but let's not kid ourselves in better equipment posted future more personnel. all of this costs a lot of money and for that industry, we will set up a special fund before the german armed forces and i am grateful to german finance minister lynn now for his support to nurse the bonus opens widely and 12022 german budgets will have 100000000000 euros earmarked for this as a one off and this money will be used for investment in the german armed forces be about a 100 yards from now on year for year. more than 2 percent of our g. d. p will be invested in defense in in london. and ladies and gentlemen, and i am address

for the russian armed forces. ., , ., ., , armed forces.they are not, they just really aren't. _ armed forces. no, they are not, they just really aren't. they _ armed forces. no, they are not, they just really aren't. they have _ armed forces. no, they are not, they just really aren't. they have got - just really aren't. they have got better since 201a, and the west has given them anti aircraft missiles, anti—tank missiles, looking for the coming through are some of the attacks that seem to have been used and been effective. but this is a massive invasion, and the ukrainian forces, if you look at it, ukraine is the largest country in europe, it is the largest country in europe, it is 800 miles long and they have had to spread their forces thinly over a wide front, but the russians can amass their forces and that is what they are trying to do. their best units in the ukrainian military actually to the south and east where the conflict was, and the russians will be probably trying to encircle them, so whether they can get back and mount a def

i will be more effective with stronger armed forces— armed forces.ntial _ armed forces. i am proud of the substantial uplift _ armed forces. i am proud of the substantial uplift in _ armed forces. i am proud of the substantial uplift in our - armed forces. i am proud of the substantial uplift in our defence | substantial uplift in our defence spending we have been able to provide and with the strongest and fastest—growing economy and you look as a result of the measures in the g7 is that is out of the measures taken i am confident we will continue to give our armed forces the investment they need. ukraine has been experiencing _ the investment they need. ukraine has been experiencing conflicts - the investment they need. ukraine has been experiencing conflicts in l has been experiencing conflicts in 2014, creating a crisis of 2.9 million people in need. can the prime minister is confirm the uk stands ready to work with the government of the ukraine and international partners in providing humanitarian assistance should the conflict exacerbate.— humani

it means to have a modern progressive german armed forces. you understand that we can protect us in the munich security conference a week ago. i said we need to for air craft. we need ships, and we'd soldiers who are well equipped, ideally equipped for their missions. that's what it's about, your voice broke, and this and lord can be done with the door for a country as big as we are as important as we are in europe. milton before but let's not kid ourselves in better equipment holstered figure, more personnel, all of this costs a lot of money and for that industry, we will set up a special fund before the german armed forces and i am grateful to german finance minister lynn. now for his support to nurse the bonus opens widely once once 2022 german budgets will have 100000000000 euros earmarked for this as a one off. and this money will be used for investment in the german armed forces. the about a bond on yard from now on year for year. more than 2 percent of our g d. p will be invested in defense in in london. and ladies and gentlemen, and i

it means to have a modern progressive german armed forces. you understand that we can protect us in legal and munich security conference. a week ago, i said we need to for air craft. we need ships and we'd soldiers who are well equipped, ideally equipped for their missions. that's what it's about your voice broke. and this, some lord can be done the door for a country as big as we are as important as we are in europe. meals before, but let's not kid ourselves. it better, equipment posted figure, more personnel, all of this costs a lot of money. and for that industry, we will set up a special fund before the german armed forces and i am grateful to german finance minister, lynn. now for his support in this the one is old that's widely and 12022 german budgets will have 100000000000 euros earmarked for this as a one off. and this money will be used for investment in the german armed forces until noon on yacht from now on year for year. more than 2 percent of our g d. p will be invested in defense in london. and ladies and gentlemen, and i am ad

kyiv time, the armed forces of the russian federation waged a war against ukraine. for those first 13 hours, my country was fighting simultaneous attacks from the east, south, north and from the air. the russian armed forces began to bomb the infrastructure on the territories of ukraine, airports, warehouses, facilities, and also civilian infrastructure. the missiles dropped airstrikes everywhere. make no mistakes it is not an military operation or whatever it was called yesterday. it is a war against ukraine. the russian aggression has taken place in many regions. our turley shelling in the areas and settlements continues. they also used the territory of belarus to launch an attack. ballistic missiles have been launched toward the territory of belarus. according to the latest data, they also attacked hospitals, the information that was out from the minister of health. they also made an attempt to shield the chernobyl nuclear power station. the fight is ongoing with the ukrainian national guard protecting the station from attacks. for the first time since the cherno

just to say it was because for that the german armed forces need new strong capabilities. and this is my 4th issue that i wish to speak about now. and this is lynn lucas, middle monday dawn with no. this is the 4th thing i wish to speak to you about today. if you read to the decrees that distort history, that putin has written. if you look at his statement that he made in t, v. brooks with brooks describing his attack, and that although i had just spoken to put in for hours, any one who has read what put in says, can have no doubt that putin wants to create a russian empire. and he wants to recreate the order within europe, and he has no fear of using military might to achieve it. and we're seeing this in ukraine. today's that we have to ask ourselves, what capabilities disputants, russia have, and what capabilities do we need in order to counter there's threat to day and in the future. law is one thing is for sure meeting this, we need to invest considerably more in the security of our country in order to defend our liberty and our democracy in this way as well as this an

there are then going to be given to the ukranian armed forces at this e p, f i. this european piece facility was instrument was set up last year. it has been in use, for example, as supplying the african union or with with assistance, but not lethal assistance, not the kind of ammunition that the ukrainian armed forces will be getting. so certainly very significant and is expected to bolster the crane and armed forces as they continue to battle the russians on the ground. so something of a watershed moment here for european security and foreign policy as well. now ukraine is aspiring to join the european union. that's part of what all this conflict is about, assuming that ukraine retains its independence. christine, what are its prospects of actually becoming a new member? stay well in, in, in, in the days and after the invasion and began have some e u member states l opened up their conversation they, they made public remarks expressing that ukraine should be granted a path to accession into the european union. poland for example, slovakia are for example, the p

. >> the armed forces of russian federation initiated a war against ukraine. my country is fighting simultaneous attacks from that east, south, north and from the air. the russian armed forces began to bomb the infrastructure, our airports, warehouses, facilities, and civilian infrastructure. the missiles and bombs, make no mistake, it is not a military operation or whatever it was called yesterday. it is a war against ukraine. the russian aggression [indiscernible] fighting is still taking place in many places. artillery continues among the state borders. they also used belarus to launch an attack. they tried to cross the state border with military vehicles. they have been launched towards ukraine from belarus. according to the data, they also attacked some of the hospitals that was the information that was out from the minister of health. and they also made an attempt to steal nuclear power station. -- the chernobyl nuclear power station. for the first time since the disaster, we have to defend it again from the russian forces. the combined military, we are

the one was billed the oldest lee. german armed forces has already expanded its support for the eastern european later partners. and for this important signal, i want to thank the german minister of defense lithuania, where we are leading the response a task that we have increased our troops. and in romania we have expanded our air pollution trip as well. we want to set up a new task force in the backyard. our navy is helping with additional ships when it comes to ensuring and policing, the north sea and the mediterranean. and we are prepared to be involved with air forces in defending the air space near the russian border and above the eastern european countries. one glance or donaldson arm, and his soldiers are men and women who have not had much time to prepare for these comp, operations. let me say and on behalf of all of you here, i am sure, thank you duncan for you. thank you. god, for your important service in these dark days accepts ladies and gentlemen, which is based on the mosque change that you put in for your bulk attack. means for us, let me say it harold's a new age and w

it means to have a modern progressive german armed forces. understand that we can protect us in legal and munich security conference. a week ago, i said we need to for air craft. we need ships and we'd soldiers who are well equipped, ideally equipped for their missions. that's what it's about, your voice broke. and this some sort can be done with the door for a country as big as we are as important as we are in europe. william mills before but let's not kid ourselves. it better. equipment posted figure, more personnel. all of this costs a lot of money and for that industry, we will set up a special fund before the german armed forces and i am grateful to german finance minister lynn. now for his support to nurse the bonus opens widely and 12022 german budgets will have 100000000000 euros earmarked for this as a one off. and this money will be used for investment in the german armed forces be about a $100.00 yards from now on year for year. more than 2 percent of our g. d. p will be invested in defense in london. and ladies and gentlemen, and

and then you have veterans of the armed forces of the security forces.officers whojoined. you have probably already heard on your news about these fantastic pilot who already shut down ten russian aeroplanes. this guy been in retirement and he returned back to the ukrainian air forces and now retirement and he returned back to the ukrainian airforces and now he is a national hero. but then you have just the volunteers, like members of parliament, just regular re—meat ukrainians. they are trying to get the basic trainings immediately on the ground —— just regular ukrainians. it also molotov cocktails orjust being attentive to this burst of operations, you just need determination and goodwill but not a very special training. ok. not a very special training. ok, thank you- _ live now to geneva, and joung—ah ghedini—williams from the united nations high commissioner for refugees. tens commissioner for refugees. of thousands of refug| crossing tens of thousands of refugees crossing out of ukraine. thank you forjoining us. we have seen images in the last 24 ho

and this money will be used for investment in the german armed forces. be about a 100 yards from now on year for year. more than 2 percent of our g. d. p will be invested in defense in in london. and ladies and gentlemen, and i am addressing all parliamentary groups of the german bonus tag. let us in approve this in our basic long minus diligence and something i would like to add at this point is that we are not just aspiring liberals of to this of your goal. because we have committed to this in our allies to increase our defense spending up to 2 percent of our g d p. we are doing it for ourselves. we are doing it for our own security boy business dosage. ms. oliver told us once, madden well aware of the fact that it will not be enough just to have the german armed forces to stop the challenges facing us. this is why we also need to invest in development with and this is why we also need to strengthen our resilience, but technically and as socially in order to be more resilient against cyber attacks on our communications systems. and we will need to keep

it means to have a modern progressive german armed forces. understand that we can protect us in legal and munich security conference. a week ago, i said we need to for air craft. we need ships and we'd soldiers who are well equipped, ideally equipped for their missions. that's what it's about your voice. and this, some lord can be done the door for a country as big as we are as important as we are in europe. meals before, but let's not kid ourselves. it better, equipment posted figure, more personnel, all of this costs a lot of money. and for that industry, we will set up a special fund before the german armed forces and i am grateful to german finance minister lynn now for his support to nurse the bonus opens widely and 12022 german budgets will have 100000000000 euros earmarked for this as a one off and this money will be used for investment in the german armed forces be about a 100 yards from now on year for year. more than 2 percent of our g. d. p will be invested in defense in in london. and ladies and gentlemen, and i am addressing all

a public holiday in honor of the armed forces.se to the border with ukraine , there are different views on what is hpening less than 100 kilometers away. of course it's scary, tatyana tells me. but what can we do? we can do nothing. alexander served in the russian fleet. ukraine will stop shelling, he says. and if they will not, as they set on tv, we will send in troops. >> russia celebrates a military and the rest of the world is keeping a close eye on what the military is doing. and as commander-in-chief, president putin keeps them guessing. >> there was wreath laying in moscow. president putin inspected the troops. he has not confirmed if he has ordered any into the ukraine. >> i did not say the troops would go straight there after our meeting here. second, it's generally not possible to protect possible actions. it depends on the specific situations developing on the ground. >> evacuation buses come from the rebel held areas. filling out paperwork, recent arrivals were feeling emotional book about president putin's decision to

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does the brain have to basically refuse having a meaningful armed forces? germany, what i'm getting, what the most right between the war that actually after the 2nd world war, what does he mean by that? i think it's just for this kind of salamis, lighting tactics in which demands are gradually increased and it is known well in advance that the demand will not be fulfilled is just creating pretax that read x that predict. what about the sanctions that have been announced? constantine the you along with the u. s. and other countries of announce limited sanctions against russia. what impact you think the sanctions will have? well, not much for know these up relatively mild sanctions, which were adopted at the time when people in brussels in washington. so that's ok, maybe we'll stop at this kind of a region recognition, but it doesn't seem to work out that way. and if you look at the american sanctions, which attracted a lot of attention that there are 2 banks there. both of them do not have seen one doesn't have retail at all. another one has been essentially

this money is essentially going to be used to supply the ukranian armed forces with lethal ammunition. the european union has been known to assist a in, in, in conflict missions around the world. but more from a piece perspective, so not necessarily supplying things like anti tank missiles, fighter jets and the like the kind of assistance that is going to be given to the ukrainian or armed forces. so the significance of this cannot be, am under estimated. it cannot be understated as we're hearing from that wasn't on the line there. it is really a watershed moment for the european union to take the step in doing this. indeed, in the weeks leading up to, to this invasion, we saw an individual member states donating military eights of the ukrainian military. but this was at a bilateral level. and now this, if it is being coordinated at a, at a block level, an e u level, and that again, is the 1st time we've ever seen such happen. so you defense ministers are also convey convening to day walker. we expect her so now it's about the logistics of this, right. i've talked about this for 15000

or we helped them to build them more and more than capable armed force or military. we have helped them to train equip, and in many different ways strengthen their armed forces, or we help them with cyber defenses innate on it, while ice and different ways. but, but, but we don't have a natal troops in ukraine, and we don't have any plans to send natal troops into ukraine, but we are there to protect and defend all their dollars. so we support ukraine. we broad, absolute security guarantees for nato allies. and we demonstrate that a commitment by increasing the presence in east and pot alliance. we're trying to think a couple of questions online before we come back to the pressroom. so we'll go to steve alinda from new york times. am. thank you. secretary general, 2 quick questions. one do, does nato do still have military d, confliction contacts with russian forces today are those ongoing. and secondly, a lot of nato countries are going to want to keep supplying weapons to 2 arm ukraine. do foresee this as a major risk of nato, russia conflict, and where else do you

he made the comments in an address to honour the armed forces.

and the number of kill civilians, the number of killed armed forces, civilian armed forces em, but also minos map present forces m and the number of displaced people remains huge . i believe this is a difficult question because we would need to see another tentative reality with but pan potentially never having intervene or, you know, m m been subsequent to, to several in order to tell whether it was better or worse to have a can bear. so where does this old all these withdrawals now leave the fight against jihad ism and maryan in the whole region? i believe there will be a vacuum of security in the short term, especially for at the gas and the there's on that money. and the armed forces of these 3 countries in the trade border area. so there will be problems in the short term and, but this will also lead to potentially into a push for negotiations with some of his ankle. no, to lead notably the the aldehyde activated group in the tribe or their area. and potentially the recruitment base for these and hopes which have relied to wait a lot in terms of propaganda on the presence of french

i've driven thousands of volunteers to join the armed forces and in the buddhist league, the battle of the brochures turned into a rain soaked gold, fist with dog ones, mako voice haunting his former club. ah. m anthony, how'd welcome you as president joe biden, and russian president vladimir putin have accepted in principle to hold a summit aimed at diffusing tensions of ukraine. if russia doesn't launch an invasion, the announcement was made by the office of french president, oh man, norma crohn, who held a series of phone calls with leaders on both sides of the conflict in an almost 2 hour long talk with putin on sunday. mccormicks office said both had agreed on the need to favor a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis and to do everything to achieve one that despite that apparent breakthrough on the diplomatic front, russia and billy bruce have decided to expand, extend rather military drills that we're supposed to end on sunday, satellite imagery has also a merge which purports to show new deployments of russian equipment and troops near the border with you crime. the images w

or stand with the same way again. ukraine's decision to conscript men of fighting age into the armed forces has divided families. the women who have fled with their children. no, that long, good buys may turn out to be final farewells. but there is resilience here. my dad is always tried to have found fun with they can find fun. and so this is everywhere. if they have a son, mamma, song dies, but all her go love, feel some filled with dangerous station, but would try to be strong and not so panic. for many of the displaced this semester, the train station will be the 1st time any of them have seen any sort of help in days, a hot meal, a place to rest a ride to cities across europe. even people opening up their own homes to offer those displaced by the fighting in ukraine a place to stay. there has been an outpouring of support from volunteers who want to help any way they can. we met maria in tears as she searched for a mother with a newborn she had met earlier in the day. she came back to the train station with toys, but the mother and baby are gone. the oven my 20, i'd gladly bumper. send

if i told you a week ago that you would agree to a 100000000000 extra for the german armed forces, you probably wouldn't have believed me. what has happened a we always said, till it escalating an escalating for by the, by the russian side we always are saying that all, all options with the table and we can't exclude anything. so was we gonna have a lot of talks and discussions among each other within the coalition to find the right way to spend this money. and of course, we know that energy security also security. and we're one of the countries who failed to diversify from, from a dependency of, from, from russian forces. and this has to be changed immediately and very fast. and this is what it didn't happen for the last 16 years. now this is nothing sort of a paradigm shift and towards both strength, germany's military capabilities you mentioned, energy is a time for the greens as well to rethink whether they said, really div atomic energy. i'll listen of the companies we're owning and, and, and running this d a nuclear power plants in germany are telling us that there is no way to e

we help them to build a capable armed force. we have also trained and equipped to strengthen their armed forces. we do not have nato troops in ukraine. we do not have any plans to send nato troops into ukraine. we support ukraine. we provide absolute security guarantees for nato allies. >> we will take a couple of questions before we go back to the press room. >> thank you secretary-general. two quick questions. you still have military contacts with russian forces today? are those ongoing? secondly, a lot of nato countries are going to want to keep supplying weapons to ukraine. do you foresee this is a major risk of a nato-russia conflict? and where else do you see risk of conflict now between russia and nato countries that could still over into something worse? thank you. >> we have increased the presence and activated defense to make sure that we do not see any spillover into nato territory. because as long as russia knows that an attack on a nato ally will trigger response from the whole alliance, we are the strongest allianc

the german chancellor announced the creation of, of 100000000000 euro fun for the armed forces in the allocation of more than 2 percent of the yearly g. d. p. for the defense budget. on top of the fact that germany is now resolved to send weapons to ukraine, it would not be an overstatement to say that this is a tectonic shift in german politics. what else do you make of this? absolutely, actually i spoke to m p. 's. now in the opposition of anglo michael's conservative party, they said we never dared to ask for this. after all, they were in government with the social democrats at the party of olaf. so it's in the past. and during the medical years, this would have been simply inconceivable. and now it's truly happened overnight sparked by the russian aggression in ukraine. also we heard from all of so it's quite clearly calling out vladimir putin saying that in rasa to tolerance, democracy would in the end prevail. and there's a market differentiation between rossa and vladimir putin here and more. the sanctions are targeted against vladimir putin. this is seen as vladimir putin's wi

will stand by the ark ukrainian armed forces and as other native allies have we will continue to find ways to help them. >> they've announced they are closing for space -- none left you have any comments on this? >> i don't have anything on that. >> dod coordinating defensive systems with partners and can you, on -- >> i can't comment on that, that's really for the european community to speak to. separate and distinct from that, we absolutely remain in close consultation and coordination with allies and partners about security assistance and i don't have a coordination mechanism to speak to like all of us funneled through a single place or that kind of thing but we continue to coordinate closely with allies and partners about the security systems ukrainians continue not just from us but them as well -- >> providing ukrainians with weapons, they are not revealing what weapons they are providing ukraine and u.s. has been reluctant but we are talking about -- not a lot however, we are still talking anti- armor but there's no sympathy, some might say, you don't want to provoke the russian

of ukraine are leaving their positions, en masse, breaking service men of the armed forces of ukraine abandoned their weapons, military targets are hit with precision, that's a lot different from what we're hearing from ukraine as matt bradley just reported. >> that's right, we're hearing basically counterclaims to everything we've been hearing from the ukrainian defense minister and it's interesting because they're very much trying to capture a certain area here of this operation, remember this began with a very early morning declaration, of a special military operation, especially a kind of liberation of ukraine but don't call it war, you're not hearing that anywhere in the russian media, they're being very selective how they're presenting this, and you will hear, we're watching a talk show, on one of the russian state channels, and saying things like very soon russian forces will leave ukraine, ukrainians will be free to choose their leadership, reiterating that ukrainian soldiers are abandoning their positions en masse. and they're saying, they're coming into the russian military,

the russian armed forces have taken full control over the city of mila to paul. the russian service men are taking all messages to provide security to the civilian population and eliminate provocations from the green in secret services and nationalists. during the night, the armed forces of the russian federation struck ukrainian military facilities with high precision weapons of long distance syringe using cruise, marseilles. i want to emphasize one more time that we only fired the military facilities of the armed forces of ukraine, thus eliminating the chance of damaging houses and social infrastructure unit. dasa . how do we gauge russian reaction to what's going on in particularly in easton, ukraine? because that seems to be a consensus now among some of the analysts we're talking to here on the channel that mister putin cannot guarantee locked in russian support for what he's getting russian soldiers to do right now. no, absolutely, peter. and it's now just over 48 hours since this, this whole began. and still there, russian population is in shock and now th

this money is essentially going to be used to supply the ukranian armed forces with lethal ammunition. the european union has been known to assist a in, in, in conflict missions around the world, but more from a piece perspective. so not necessarily supplying things like anti tank missiles, fighter jets and the like at the kind of assistance that is going to be given to the ukrainian or armed forces. so the significance of this cannot be, am under estimated. it cannot be understated as we're hearing from that was it on the line. it is really a watershed moment for the european union to take the step in doing this. indeed, in the weeks leading up to, to this invasion, we saw an individual member states donating military a to the ukrainian military. but this was at a bilateral level. and now this, if it is being coordinated at a, at a block level, at an e, you level, and that again, is the 1st time we've ever seen such happen. so you defense ministers are also convey convening to day walker. we expect bur. so now it's about the logistics of this, right. i've talked about this for 150000

armed forces have under performed. the fact that they have not achieved all their objectives on time is i think a consequence of ukrainian resistance and this given the huge disadvantage they are when it comes to air power and sea power, is why the ukrainians are asking for, pleading for stingers, shoulder fire-to-air defense systems, so the fighting that's been happening, these are helicopters that are bringing in special forces. helicopters could be shot down easily by stingers, that's why the ukrainians are asking for that. the videos are rockets hitting apartments, nobody should be surprised that this is what russians are doing. they are firing indiscriminately into the middle of the city inflicting civilian casualties and adding to the panic. >> general, in announcing his invasion of ukraine president biden suggested he intends to rid the country of its democratic elected government, zelenskyy. do you think putin is close to achieving that goal? what can zelenskyy do to remain in power in. >> i met president zelen

restore the ukrainian armed forces, put it under a different government. the russians are being a lot more deliberate and slow pace that i would have imagined. it looks like they're trying to be discriminate in their targeting. this is not massive employment of ordinance in kyiv, and hopefully won't be. and i think at the end of the day, the ukrainians will fight this alone, and putin is likely to achieve his military objectives. perhaps in under 90 days. but will be in a strategic disaster for having taken on this mission. the sad tragic day will be a lot of refugees in abject misery. >> betsy, what's the general says there others have said. that in the end for whatever historical reasons, ukraine is not part of nato. it has struggled with what it is as a country. despite what vladimir putin says, that is not a country, it is really a country. but it has struggled with its political system, its future, over the last 20 years. there are people who can say we can give them stuff, but ultimately they will fight this alone. evaluate that for me. >> it's a you

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this money is essentially going to be used to supply the ukranian armed forces with lethal ammunition. the european union has been known to assist a in, in, in conflict missions around the world, but more from a piece perspective. so not necessarily supplying things like anti tank missiles, fighter jets and the like at the kind of assistance that is going to be given to the ukrainian or armed forces. so the significance of this cannot be, am under estimated. it cannot be understated as we're hearing from that was it on the line. it is really a watershed moment for the european union to take the step in doing this. indeed, in the weeks leading up to, to this invasion, we saw an individual member states donating military eights of the ukrainian military. but this was at a bilateral level. and now this, if it is being coordinated at a, at a block level, at an e, you level, and that again is the 1st time we've ever seen such happen. so you defense ministers are also convey convening to day walker. we expect her so now it's about the logistics of this, right. i've talked about this for 150

how long will that take it to, to have any effect on, on the german armed forces? well, this will depend how clever this money is spent. on the one hand, there are long term projects like replacing the aging tornado fighter jets or in your helicopters. this will take years on the other hand of the german army is in dire need of things you can buy off the shelf that ammunition that night vision goggles, read to protective vests and things like that. so it's not only the high tech equipment, it's those allegedly minor things which i and so child supply and this can be organized pretty fast journalist and military experts, so much view that. thank you very much tom. you're welcome. but they can amik sanctions against russia, starting to have an impact the russian ruble as plunge to record low, dropping more than 30 percent against the us dollar russians on our scrambling to withdraw money from banks with long queues forming a cash machines across the country. in an attempt to prop up the ruble, russia central bank, double, it's key interest rate to an unprecedented 20

they represent a significant chunk of our nato contribution to the armed forces. we are keeping all options open to provide the president a decision space. if you are asking me could the number of forces increase? yes, it could happen. when and how we can speak to that, we will speak to that. the number of u.s. forces already in europe, two eastern flank allies at their request and their expectation. that would not require the secretary to necessarily put them on and alert. maybe, depending on who they are , but not necessarily. if the question is could troops be put on a shorter tether to go upwards of 8500, the answer is yes. i do not have anything specific to speak to about that today. what we want to do is make sure we are providing options to the president and to our allies, in case those options are needed to reinforce our commitment to the alliance. you asked me what would they be doing if the nrf is activated? as i said when we announced to them, there is a range of capabilities they represent. come back ground forces are included in that. we did not go int