thousands of people have given l the yachtswoman ellen macarthur a spectacular homecoming - in the cornish port of falmouth after she smashed the world record . for sailing solo around the world, non stop. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: pressure mounts on borisjohnson as police review hundreds of photos and documents related to possible downing street parties during lockdown. us officials says russia has delivered a written response to washington s proposals aimed at reducing tensions over ukraine but they did not release any details. earlier, the two countries exchanged bitter accusations over ukraine at a public session of the un security council. the russian ambassador said the us was provoking escalation by falsely accusing moscow of preparing to invade. his american counterpart said russia was trying to create an excuse to attack. russia is demanding that ukraine will never be allowed tojoin nato. the us and its allies have warned of unprecendented sanctions if ru
we have to speak in one voice. one of our strengths is to be connected, to be coordinated, to speak in one voice. if we start speaking in different voices within nato, then we become automatically weak. so. well, mr prime minister, you. maybe you need to tell your own president that, because your voice and his are rather different. no, no, i think that de escalation is one voice, being part of nato is one voice. there is bulgarian troops and nato troops is in one voice. the one thing that i want to make sure that i confirm here in this discussion is that bulgaria s position towards crimea is identical and one of the same as the total position of the european union, and that crimea is not part of russia. just one more question on sanctions. if it comes to pass that there is a russian military move in ukraine, and severe sanctions are put on putin, there is no doubt that putin will respond
a military move on ukraine. earlier, i asked dr alina polyakova of the center for european policy analysis in washington and i asked if she saw any sign of a peaceful way out. unfortunately, i think we re in a bit of a paralysis mode where the russian side has made quite egregious and unrealistic demands, the united states and european allies have laid out our concerns about those demands, but still, there doesn t seem to be a compromise across the horizon here. certainly, it s a positive sign that the russians did respond in written form and not public form to the us response to their demands, but unfortunately, it s not yet clear whether the russian side is actually serious about diplomacy. yeah, there s also still an oddity, isn t there, that the us ambassador sorry, the russian ambassador says the us is fomenting hysteria, and actually, the ukrainian president
and that gets to the question of whether or not our allies will stay with us if mr. putin decides to limit russian military move, for example, into eastern ukraine. to zelensky, look, i think once russia commits its military power into ukraine, the united states can share operational intelligence. it can help the ukrainians with cyber. it can sanction, sanction, sanction, beef up nato s eastern flank. and assuming if the military operations are not comprehensive or expansive, it can conduct supply operations to the ukrainian military. if mr. putin decides on a full-fledged invasion designed to destroy the ukrainian military, destabilize the government in kyiv and for at least a short period of time occupy key cities, i think there s going to be very little
obviously to keep ukraine on the short leash. if he can do it through diplomacy. if he can use personalities as sholz or french president. essentially designed to put the break away republics up. so it functions as a block on ukraine further movement the west nato. that is will remain vladimir putin goal and we maybe digging in for a long haul here. this is this may just be the beginning. so, we are seeing an information war play out. right now. with the u.s. revealing sensitive military intelligence. in effort to remove the element of surprise. from any military move that putin might make.