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live now to paul knott. he is a former british diplomat to both russia and ukraine.ing us. talk us through the implications of this summit and we heard in the west. {iii summit and we heard in the west. of the biggest implications as the ukraine, what this means is russia is desperate for more weapons and more armaments to continue the horrible things it is doing and it is not an expected because they've been trying to do that because they have not been able to produce enough for themselves and their closest friend, they've not been able to secure weaponry. the problem for the west and itjust reinforces, i think, the need to reinforce ukraine is much as possible and push russia out and it is a sign of russian desperation that, at the moment, north korea are pariahs in one of the few places they have to go for anything resembling friendship. it is with both of these parties in the world of global stability and what they believe particularly with regards to ukraine. it is they believe particularly with regards to ukraine.— they believe particularly with regards to ukra

paul knott is a former british diplomat who's spent time in ukraine and russia.l continue. i think it's going to continue, the support, obviously, as time goes by it gets more and more difficult as the us approaches its own elections next year. it is, i suppose, an extreme wing, it has seized on the ukraine issue as something they want to push on in the traditional isolationism of us politics. i think at the moment you can also not forget there is quite a substantial part of the republican party that is still quite supportive of ukraine, including significant trump supporters like senator lindsey graham, i think that is still the case. it is not drastic yet but this continued effort by zelensky and ukraine to try to keep shoring up the support, keep the support coming, it's really important. this comes at a very different time. a year ago, when president zelensky, last december, when he addressed a joint session of congress, he gave kamala harris and nancy pelosi a ukrainian flag, which i recall was signed by soldiers who had been fighting. the gains that were ma