and, of course, we provided defense weapons, the examples that we are seeing in the package list, those taking out a lot of russian tanks, in advance of this war starting. so i know when i speak to in ukraine, actually still in kyiv, the minister cooper cough tells me that the pioneering with generosity and lotto to hurt ways the british people feel very aligned to what is going on and our infectious to defense europe. is the uk going to commit to the 1% of the nato firepower that zelenskyy has asked for? the whole nato thing, you saw that nato meeting yesterday including president biden, we have a collective decision. ukraine is not actually a member of nato. of course, we are doing everything that we can to help and assist, but we do not want to create a wider war from the.
likelihood of hitting civilian areas. so certainly a great deal of concern there about how this next phase of the war may develop. in, lviv thank you. and we are expecting to hear from president joe biden on this media brief this morning. that will be around we will of course bring that to you. still to come on the program, just after 8:00 with nato leaders gathering in brussels, we will get a view of the then at 8:30, response to the crisis and russia s framing of the war with the fence and security expert mark and at a quarter to nine, as humanitarian crisis in ukraine worsens, i will be speaking with a uk citizen who has been trying to get his ukrainian wife and family into since february. a former iranian hostage and
version of the interview with a new russia throughout the day here on sky news. and also on sky news, youtube channel. to stay with us here on sky news breakfast, coming up life we will be in warsaw ahead of president biden s visit with more on europe s refugee crisis. is
forces and russian troops as well. it would essentially make nato a direct participant in this war, raising the threat that this could indeed lead to a third world war. but certainly on that issue, moving away from russian energy, president biden s meeting at the moment with eu commission president about this a issue. seeking to try and move the european union away from that reliance on russian energy, they import around 40% of their natural gas from russia, and around 25% of that oil was just by far the biggest exporter of energy to the european union. the financial times is reporting this morning that america is finalizing a deal to supply the eu with liquefied natural gas. now, we expect to hear from president biden and very shortly. it could be that we hear some sort of announcement on the, but even if america isn t able to provide liquefied natural
gas to the european union, it wouldn t be without its difficulties, they don t have the same distribution pipelines, it could be very expensive and of course, consumers in europe are already seeing significant price hikes in energy prices. but, one thing that president biden has also said in the last 24 hours, he has responded to the threat of chemical weapons being used by russian forces here in ukraine. i should say as been potentially, the quietest night of fighting since this war began. certainly we have become used to air raids, sirens on a regular basis here, even in the west of ukraine. i don t think we have had one for two days. but that doesn t necessarily offer a huge amount of reassurance to ukrainians. there is a concern that russian forces are regrouping, that their tactics may be changing, and presidents lewinsky has already said the false responds are being used in ukraine. no we haven t had any confirmation of that, but there are two examples that have been