brussels, ukrainian security analyst hanna shelest and from virginia, ian brzezinski, a former us deputy assistant secretary of defense for europe and nato. hello, welcome to the programme. the nato summit in madrid will go down as a major turning point. today, the alliance extended a formal invitation to finland and sweden that when ratified will extend nato s border with russia by more than 800 miles. alongside that, the alliance has outlined its new strategic vision, which puts a more muscularfocus on the defence of nato s eastern flank. the high readiness forces will be expanding seven fold to more than 300,000 troops. president biden has announced there will be a new permanent us base in poland, the first time the americans have had a standing force so close to russia s border, and he will also send two additional american destroyers to join the european fleet. we re going to approve a new nato strategic concept and reaffirm the unity and determination of our alliance to
a 17 year old striker becomes the first english professional footballer in the men s game, for three decades, to come out as gay. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. this we start with the news that more than 200 wounded soldiers this from the azovstal steelworks on the edge of the city of mariupol have been evacuated. pictures suggest that they have been bussed out and have now reached novoazovsk, which is a russian controlled town in eastern ukraine. at least 50 of them are said to have been taken to local hospitals. the forces had been withstanding a russian offensive for almost three months, gaining almost legendary status among many ukrainians. it s not clear at this stage if they will be released into ukrainian government hands. translation: we hope to save the lives of translation: we hope to save the lives of our translation: we hope to save the lives of our boys translation: we hope to save the lives of our boys was - translation: we
quite annoying to hear it rises talking about illegitimate elections. let s speak to francis scarr from bbc monitoring, who follows russian state tv. tell us about the reaction in moscow to what they have been seeing at the nato summit because they must surely be people in the kremlin who are scratching their head about the strategy of this war in ukraine. indeed, given that the move by finland indeed, given that the move by finland and indeed, given that the move by finland and sweden indeed, given that the move by finland and sweden which - indeed, given that the move by finland and sweden which we l indeed, given that the move by- finland and sweden which we expect tojoin finland and sweden which we expect tojoin nato finland and sweden which we expect tojoin nato will finland and sweden which we expect to join nato will add finland and sweden which we expect to join nato will add 800 finland and sweden which we expect tojoin nato will add 800 miles - finland and sweden
commanding control with a cyber attack of the type that they have not been able to muster or carry out very effectively. we don t know if they can somehow move ten or 20 kilometres on a given day in a way that wasn t previously predicted. they could begin to cut off some of those brave and competent ukrainian forces in the eastern part of the country. so i still think there are a lot of ways this could go badly and i m not predicting victory. i predicting victory. i understand that. we can assume less there will be a sense of mounting pressure from russia. whether that is the likes of finland and sweden indicating their desire tojoin finland and sweden indicating their desire to join nato. finland and sweden indicating their desire tojoin nato. in fact, we heard in the last 30 minutes or so from the us that they have now tested a hypersonic weapon, which is a clear message at least that is what they are up to at the moment. they are ratcheting up their tramp cards. you moment. they are