to condemn moscow s invasion. the first batch of aid, being delivered through the chinese red cross, left beijing yesterday. it includes food and daily necessities, such as cutlery, blankets and towels. and there will be more on the situation here in a question time ukraine special. that s at 8pm tonight on bbc one. that s all from me in lviv. back to the studio in london. in the last hour, the defence secretary, ben wallace, has announced the uk is increasing its supply of weapons to ukraine to help it defend itself. mr wallace told mps britain is to send more anti tank missiles as well as looking at other weapon supplies. 0ur defence correspondent jonathan beale is here, so the uk really stepping up military aid. we already know that they sent 2000
how we train them so that they can use them effectively, and how we prevent the russians from intercepting or interdicting those weapon supplies and thus generating another chain of escalation comes to the fore. so really i think that what we re facing is that with putin playing the nuclear card, by rattling nuclear sabres, he has effectively warned off nato from further intervention and it s left us in a difficult place because we can t easily increase our involvement in this conflict without risking rapid escalation to a full-on nuclear war. speak to the dangers, too, of a man like putin. i mean if he feels cornered or threatened or if he feels he s got nothing to lose. look, that is that is the issue here. if it becomes clear that russian forces fail to achieve their objectives in the coming weeks
many thanks. nomia iqbal reporting. nato s defence ministers have met in brussels today for the first time since russia s invasion began to discuss what further support they can offer ukraine. nato s secretary general, jens stoltenberg, said members of the alliance were providing large quantities of critical military equipment to the country, and that support would continue. our defence correspondent jonathan beale is in brussels for us. what are they hoping to achieve? as you mentioned, the first goal is to ensure those weapon supplies into ukraine keep flowing. notjust western weapons such as anti aircraft and anti tank missiles, but also old kit from eastern europe which ukrainian forces will be familiar with using. there are of course limits to what nato is willing to do, and they are not seriously discussing that no fly
democracy and democratic institutions work, but behind that i can tell you there is still political parties, there is still different views, and the point that we have agreed within ourselves, that we will be coming out as one does not mean we changed our political views. so, as a liberal party, we are still standing for our liberal values and discuss them with all the arguments with our departments in the parliament. however, i still think it is critically important for our country that the parliament will be showing the consensus every single time we are advocating. kira, the ukrainian ambassador to the u.s. was on meet the press today making the same point your president was make that go ukraine doesn t need u.s. boots on the ground, but needs an unlimited supply of weapons from the u.s. will that be enough weapon supplies for ukrainians for