also of the program. nature chief against dalton burg outlines new pledges for ukraine including heavy weapons and military training and asks members.

speaking ahead of the summit, nato secretary general young dalton burg warned in the that's an anticipated russian offensive in easton, ukraine has already begun. he says you cranes back has a now in a logistical race to supply it with weapons and ammunition. the u. s. secretary of defense lloyd austin, gave the opening remarks at the ukraine defense contact group earlier, whose dozens of members coordinate military assistance to gave. let's take a look now to them. what he had to say is still betting that it can wait us out. but when you're on, we are as you made it as f, that's your result will help sustain your crazy momentum in the crucial weeks. i know you're craig travel, the challenging road that lies be, are looking around this room today. i know that our unity will only grow. we all understand the stakes in rushes more towards this isn't just about your grade right. to live in these insecurity. it's also about the world that are children when they're frustrate to the w. brussel bureau chief alexander the phenomenon who's at the nato headquarters. and we're also joined by d. w corr

while nato chief chance dalton burg stands for further on supplies to gab. as the only way to achieve peace, beijing has branded the military block as having a cold war mentality which has escalated the conflicts. china doesn't have much credibility because they have not been able to condemn the illegal invasion over ukraine. so meaning that if we want a peaceful, negotiate the solution aware ukraine pervaded the sovereign in the punk nation, then we need to support ukraine military. now. military support today is the way to achieve a peaceful agreement tomorrow that had an issue with these major crisis shows that cold war mentality will lead to division and confrontation, although the cold war concluded over 3 decades ago, the 0 sum game and it's mentality still exists. blah confrontational leads to conflicts and was nato is a project of the cold war. but it did not add with the cold war and has expanded an escalator the situation and has become the major factor into conflict. joseph gregory mahoney, professor of politics at east china. normal university, s

has come here, essentially with a wishlist, a wish list of weapons given that nato chief yonce dalton burg know, says that expected russian offensive may be starting to begin with. the winter thawing out here in europe. the ukraine's defense minister will brief other minister saying essentially that his country needs these weapons in order to keep up their defenses on the battlefield and nato. she stoughton for excess. this is no really becoming a race of logistics and that ammunition must be top of the agenda here. that's because ukrainian forces and russian forces are using ammunition at rapport rates where it fast rates. indeed, no, that means that this is all about natal trying to militarily make good on that promise. that pledge it's made to ukraine to stay by cave site, for as long as it takes. now the last ukraine defense contact group meeting and january here in germany was key for the decision to send tanks to ukraine and our ukranian troops already being trained on how to use those leopards. so let's have a look where this dance leverage to tanks in action. showing what they are

for example, he said that's dalton burge was working with vietnam, the western vietnam era when stuart mart was on a teenager. so he's been totally ignored by the mainstream media, which he expected, of course, the same way that his me story was ignored. he couldn't get it in the new york times, or my or life magazine to look for big american magazines in those days. and he had to go to a small, a startup wire service and then it was picked up and he went to poacher. same thing is happened now react, gone to his sub stack, to publish it. yes, i do believe that he's completely sincere. i believe he has a source, i don't think he would publish that without a credible source from the inside. i asked him whether they were factions inside washington right now. it's realist faction that wants to the war to end with some guy negotiated settlement to warn you, crane. and the other side wants to escalate the neo con side escalade and risk confrontation to nato and russia. he didn't want to go there at 1st, but then he said that the path that these factions were scattered throughout the differen

underlying who condemned what she described as russian imperialism. nato secretary general, dns dalton burg also spike of a shift in global security wanting that. what's happening in europe today could happen in asia tomorrow, always income us vice president. pamela harris also spoke earlier, and she had some very pointed words for russian president vladimir putin. there will be more dark days in ukraine. the daily agony of war will persist. the global ripple effects will continue to be felt by countries near and far from africa to southeast asia, to the caribbean. but it thinks he can wait us out. he is badly mistaken. time is not on his side. he will be in the studio is dw security correspondent, thomas barrow, or thomas we just heard from pamela harris there. you watched her speech along with me earlier, what stood out for you and, and in terms of what she had to say, undoubtedly the fact that she's stressed that they knighted state has now formerly determined that russia has committed crimes against humanity in ukraine. this was a very strong sentence by us, vice president come on a hig