to you via various mechanism already in lace. , i. ., in place. exactly. if you are eligible. in place. exactly. if you are eligible. they in place. exactly. if you are eligible, they will - in place. exactly. if you are eligible, they will be - in place. exactly. if you are eligible, they will be paid l in place. exactly. if you are| eligible, they will be paid to in place. exactly. if you are - eligible, they will be paid to you automatically. do not expect it all at once, it will in stages depending on which of the support elements you are entitled to but you should not have to claim it, it will go in automatically to your bank account. thank you very much. we ll be speaking to the shadow chancellor rachel reeves in about an hour and then to the chancellor rishi sunak at 7:30. we will get more detail on that for you. if you have got questions specifically that you would like to put to either of those politicians, particularly the chancellor, do let us know. you can get in touc
and taking it across the country to the donbas presumably to the eastern region where the fighting is expected to grow in the coming days. but won t say exactly what s on this shipment but what we do already know is they re prioritizing the weapons that ukraine needs more for the long range fighting in the donbas. that s the how howitzers. the russians are already moving that kind of capability into the northern donbas. the helicopter, support elements into the northern donbas.
to bases after completing drills. this was the response from the head of the nato military alliance. so far, we have not seen any de escalation on the ground from the russian side. over the last weeks and days, we have seen the opposite. continued military build up with more troops, more battalions, more high end capabilities, artillery and missiles and a lot of support elements. it may be several days until we know for sure whether russian troops are being withrawn. what we do know is that more than 100,000 russian troops have massed at ukraine s border. these red dots show where they are located. we also know large scale military drills are ongoing. these pictures are from crimea the region russia annexed from ukraine in 2014. we had this assessment from prime minister borisjohnson earlier.
to prioritize that part of the country. [question inaudible] we ve seen the indications that they want to recruit out of places like north africa and syria, yes. specifically libya. yes. to fight in ukraine. yes. mike. question about the 20%. refitting a mechanized unit is a logistics challenge with maintenance, pol, munitions. are you seeing examples of that happening with, you know, the support elements coming in to refit or are you just assuming at this point that they will be refitting? too soon. as i said, we ve only just we ve only just beginning to see this repositioning. it s a minor percentage of the total force that they had to the northwest and the northwest of kyiv.