not the 1st time the nature has basically rolled out the red carpet for ukraine's foreign minister dmitri qu label the last couple of times. he was here, he told myself and other reporters that he had at 1st 3 items on his wishlist weapons, weapons and weapons. the 2nd time he said he had 3 more words, foster foster and foster. and i think based on what i've heard here today, it's clear that those requests still stand as the winter thaws out. here in europe . russia is expected to launch major offensive, and ukraine and the foreign minister was here really renewing those appeals to western allies in nato. to keep up their support. and of course, what really stood out to me is given that we just heard to bite russian president putin speech versus what we've heard here is just the sense that these are 2 totally parallel universe is on the one hand, russia essentially blaming nate. so for its own invasion of you quail, of course, it doesn't use those terms to describe it. and the other hand here in brussels, a very clear line that moscow is the aggressor and we've in heard from the european uni

the 4 minister dmitri qu labor saying that this showed russia that nobody was afraid of them. but of course, this visit comes at a very worrying time, certainly for the ukrainians, and according to western intelligence agencies and ministries of defense, defense experts. they all saying that they are expecting what they are cooling a spring offensive report, solve tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of russian forces, building up on the northern borders and to the east, preparing for a push to try and take more ukrainian territory. interestingly, the ukranian president sang again promising that there would be no peace until all the land the russians had taken, wasn't liberated. and we know how controversial that is. but another offer by the us. another pledge of around about half a $1000000000.00 worth of military aid. that in addition to what has already been given billions of dollars, both by the us and by other western backers of ukraine. there are concerns though, that if indeed there was to be a spring offensive weather, in fact that a lot of this military aid is goi