in the us next year, and on a very delicate tight rope he has pledged billions of dollars of military aid to ukraine and taken on a leadership role here in europe over the war. then look at rishi sunak or france s emmanuel macron, their countries are facing the cost of living crisis. so the idea of a potential blank cheque for ukraine for years and years to come, people may not like that, so it is tricky. meanwhile: the russian government has suggested that ukraine s delayed pathway into the alliance is a victory for russia. the bbc s russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports from moscow. i think the russians were very pleased that ukraine did not get what it really wanted from this summit, in other words a firm timetable for nato membership. on russian state tv today, there was a lot of gloating all day. having said that, about these g7 security assurances, they did not go down well here in moscow. we had some reaction from president putin s spokesman, dmitry peskov, who said it would b
rope he has pledged billions of dollars of military aid to ukraine and taken on a leadership role here in europe over the wall. look at rishi sunak or emmanuel macron, the countries are facing a cost of living crisis. a blank check for years and years to come, people may not like that so it is tricky. meanwhile, the russian government has suggested that ukraine s delayed pathway into the alliance is a victory for russia. the bbc s russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports from moscow. i think the russians were very pleased that ukraine did not get what it really wanted from this summer, in other words a firm timetable for nato membership. on russian state tv today, there was a lot of gloating all day to day. having said that, about these g7 security assurances, they did not go down well here in moscow. we had some reaction from president putin s spokesman saying it would be a
what it wanted, a firm timetable for nato membership. on russian state tv there was a lot of gloating all day. having said that, about these g7 security assurances, they did not go down well in moscow. president putin s spokesman dmitry petrov said it would be a mistake and potentially very dangerous because he said it would infringe on russian security. he called nato and offensive alliance that brought with it instability and aggression. nato would say it is a defensive alliance and as far as aggression is concerned it was not nato that launched a full scale invasion of ukraine last year, it was russia. but the message from moscow is that nato is anti russia, nato is on the warpath, that was the headline here today. it fits in with the wider kremlin narrative according to which russia is a besieged fortress