fighting that fight. watching these pictures, you see another thing, which is, president biden is the head of a western alliance that s moved east. the center of gravity for nato is now warsaw, poland. it s not berlin. it s certainly not france. it s moved east. that s what this trip will be about, is president biden talking to president duda in poland, but then talking to the so-called front line states. the bucharest 9, i think they call themselves, which is these nato nations in the east. i think we need to begin to rethink nato. nato is now an alliance with this different shift of gravity, also shifting north. going north. to sweden and finland, the new members. it is vladimir diplomaticall you look how the center of gravity has shifted to poland. gene robinson, what s
would face consequences that have never been experienced in history. ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, has declared martial law. he urged his citizens not to panic, insisting his country would emerge victorious. and nato says it is activating its defence plans, bolstering its presence in front line states. in the last hour, boris johnson has said this hideous and barbaric venture must end in failure. well, our correspondent paul adams, failure. well, our correspondent pauladams, here in failure. well, our correspondent paul adams, here in kyiv, has this round up of the day s dramatic events. until early this morning, some here seem to have doubted that he would do it. not any more. the west warned vladimir putin was about to attack. he said he had no such plans. that fiction now utterly exposed. explosions right across this vast country.
europe are blocking america from doing that because america can t control s.w.i.f.t., which is based in europe. kelly, president biden holding a summit with his fellow nato heads of state. what are we learning about that, given the fact that nato by some accounts, bill cohen said to me yesterday and others saying nato has been slow to activate that rapid response force to reassure the nato front line states. having this meeting is somewhat extraordinary, bringing together the 30 nations and there are questions about when and how quickly nato response forces, including 8,500 american service members who have been identified and not yet called up. they would be under the direction of nato military commanders. we ve seen the forward motion of u.s. personnel who are u.s.
think it is and i hope it stays that way. because as long as president putin does not send his forces across nato s borders then we don t have a nato russia conflict. ukraine, although it is an ally of the west and a partner country to nato, it is not a nato member. under the constitution there is something that article five which means that if one country is attacked, they are all attacked on all have to come to the defence. nato is doing two things. it is calling on putin along with everybody else to withdraw, which he is not going to. at the same time, they are bolstering defences along the eastern flanks, sending extra forces and hardware to the civil front line states, lithuania, latvia, estonia and poland and, to a lesser extent, romania. and bulgaria. because we simply don t know what is president putin s mind. this invasion was carefully planned. the build up of