security guarantees to ukraine because he said they would infringe on russia s security. he called nato an offensive lines that brought with it instability and aggression. well, nato would say it is a defensive alliance and as far as aggression is concerned, it was not nato that launched a full scale invasion of ukraine last year, it was russia. but basically the message from moscow was, nato is anti russia, nato is on the war path that was the headline in the government paper here today and that fits in with the wider kremlin narrative according to which russia is a besieged fortress surrounded by enemies, by britain, by america, by the eu, by nato, all plotting, from morning to night, to destroy mother russia. strong rhetoric from the kremlin. strong rhetoric, too, from joe biden, who spoke on wednesday to a crowd of university students in vilnius. since this war began, i assured president zelenskyy,
hello, i m carl nasman. ukraine s president came to the annual nato summit in lithuania with high hopes, widespread western support and a demand for a timeline for his country s entry into the military alliance. volodymr zelenskyy didn t get that last one but he did not walk away empty handed either. nato member nations offered a variety of pledges this week. france says it will provide ukraine a significant number of so called scalp cruise missiles able to strike targets as far as 250km away. the united kingdom has committed to providing more than 70 vehicles, as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition for the challenger 2 tanks the uk has already provided to kyiv. 11 nato members will train ukrainian pilots in the use of the f 16 fighterjet, beginning in denmark in august. the hope is that ukraine