countries have joined is as a number of eastern european countries havejoined nato, which is a defence alliance, vladimir putin has repeatedly signalled publicly that he feels this goes back on an agreement he had with the west in the 90s with the west disputes are. and he says ukraine should promise not tojoin nato and he says ukraine should promise not to join nato or nato should promise that that s not can be possible. but at the moment, ukraine says it does want to join. this is a carefully worded statement but we can read it for what it is. it sjoe biden saying nato will continue to open its doors to european states who share its values and may someday seek tojoin. who share its values and may someday seek to join. that is essentially saying, we may expand still further. a couple of other things, from the afp news agency there is a travel band that could be part of us sanctions on putin and lab draw. we understand some sanctions may focus on there, what we could be in an extraordi