welcome to the programme. the us senators who travelled to kyiv monday to meet president zelensky believe the threat of a russian invasion is significant , immediate and ukraine needs to be ready for the worst. senator chris murphy from conneticut, one of the seven senators who travelled, said it would be the most significant disruption to the post cold war political order in europe since the conflict ended 30 years ago . no one is entirely clear whether vladimir putin has made up his mind. that explains the shuttle to policy now unfolding. the us secretary of state left washington a few hours ago for kyiv, where he will hold talks tomorrow with president zelensky. on thursday, he will talk with france, germany and the uk ahead of crunch talks in geneva on friday with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. the nato secretary generaljens stoltenberg, who today talked to the german chancellor,
around the ukraine border. it s quite worrying to the ukrainians and people around the world because we just simply don t need any sort of conflict, let alone a war right now. and we ve got this trust, who s been trying to step up her efforts as the iron lady of this, she s been put across that in the last few weeks. but itjust across that in the last few weeks. but it just seems across that in the last few weeks. but itjust seems she s too busy articulating her image of being an iron lady, instead ofjust acting and really ensuring that russia stepped down any sort of rhetoric or motives to possibly invade ukraine. it s a war of words more than anything else, and i think this is nato anything else, and i think this is nato setting out its stall ahead of these nato setting out its stall ahead of these crunch talks, it would appear, with russia these crunch talks, it would appear, with russia. and of course, they do have with russia. and of course, they do have to with russia.