with the hope is that ukraine could start using the planes in combat by the beginning of next year. germany, norway and nato itself also offered a variety of monetary and hardware pledges. our europe editor katya adler has been covering the nato summit for us, and has more from vilnius. what we saw is a waste united behind ukraine against russian aggression. but we did see real tension between the realities of war on one hand, decimating ukraine, upending stability in all of europe and on the other the very real domestic political pressures are facing all the leaders there. take vladimir zelensky, because of what his people are going through, don t expect him to be able to rock up to a summit like this with a wish list for weapons and a demand for a timetable for nato membership and they do not really understand why they cannot get it. look atjoe biden, his face in election in the us next year and on a very delicate tight rope he has pledged billions of dollars of military ai
at the nato summit in vilnius, germany has already announced a multi million euro military aid package, france has promised long range cruise missiles and the uk has announced more ammunition and military vehicles. us presidentjoe biden has told president zelensky, who s also at the summit, that ukraine s courage is an example to whole world . president biden pledged unwavering support to ukraine in its ongoing conflict to russia. today, the members of the g7 are launching a joint declaration of support for ukraine to make it clear that our support will last long into the future. this starts a process by which each of our nations and any other nation who wishes to participate will negotiate long term bilateral security commitments with and to ukraine. we re going to help ukraine build a strong, capable. across land, air and sea, which will be a force of stability in the region and deter against any and all threats. to lewis in vilnius. what are they actually mean in real ter