short term concerns like germany saying it is now rushing its air defence systems to kyiv in a number of days rather than waiting for weeks so there are going to be some accelerated shipments in response to this attack, i believe. ithink accelerated shipments in response to this attack, i believe. i think the bigger issue for nato is not a short term issue, it is the issue of long term supply or i should say medium term supply because when i talk to officials, the concern i hear is that if this work goes on until the spring, and i think it will, at that stage, the ability to keep giving ukraine the same rate of an munition, the same level of guns, armoured vehicles, that will be questioned and this will become a defence industrial for nato and european states in particular at that point. european states in particular at that point- european states in particular at that oint. ., ., that point. really good to hear your thou:hts that point. really good to hear your thoughts and that po
deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime. by launching missile attacks on civilians sleeping in their homes or rushing to work, children going to schools, russia has proven once again that it is a terrorist state that must be deterred in the strongest possible ways. but later today, sirjeremy fleming, the head of britain s signals intelligence service, gchq, will say in a speech, despite this latest aggression, russian forces are desperate, exhausted and running out of ammunition. singing. for ordinary ukrainians forced again into shelters, that might be a hopeful insight. but many months into this war, they ll be hoping foreign leaders will redouble their efforts to bring this conflict to an end. vincent mcaviney, bbc news. let s get more now from our
must be deterred in the strongest possible ways. but later today, sirjeremy fleming, the head of britain s intelligence agency, gchq, will say in a speech despite this latest aggression, russian forces are desperate, exhausted and running out of ammunition. singing for ordinary ukrainians, forced again into shelters, that might be a hopeful insight that many months into this war they ll be hoping foreign leaders will redouble their efforts to bring this conflict to an end. vincent mcaviney, bbc news. what reaction has there been in russia after yesterday s strikes in ukraine? let s talk to vitaly shevchenko, russia editor at bbc monitoring. good to have you with us. what sort of impact have these attacks on ukraine had a domestically in russia? ~ ., , ukraine had a domestically in
the ukrainian leader was defiant. translation: ukraine cannot be intimidated. | it can only be more united. ukraine cannot be stopped. it can only be more convinced that the terrorists need to be neutralised. at the united nations in new york, the general assembly held an emergency meeting to discuss the strikes and putin s illegal annexation of eastern regions after his so called referendums. deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime. by launching missile attacks on civilians sleeping in their homes or rushing to work, children going to schools, russia has proven once again that it is a terrorist state that must be deterred in the strongest possible ways. but later today, sirjeremy fleming, the head of britain s signals intelligence service, gchq, will say in a speech, despite this latest aggression, russian forces are desperate,
that moscow is running out of ammunition and president putin is making errors ofjudgement. speaking to nick robinson on bbc radio 4 s today programme, sirjeremy outlined gchq s understanding of the situation in ukraine. we believe that russia is running short of munitions. it is certainly running short of friends and we have seen, because of the declaration for mobilisation, that it is running short of troops. i think the answer to that is pretty clear. russia and russia s commanders are worried about the state of their military machine. they are, to use your words, desperate? the word i have used is desperate and we can see that desperation at many levels inside russian society and inside the russian military machine. the reason i press you on that is that we get former generals coming on this programme, who, i think it is fair to describe, are worried about complacency, worried that this