Peter Beaumont

And my guess is that for now he will simply see this as a kind of NATO containment strategy.

I mean, I think there's a huge amount of concern, particularly over the threats from Moscow to sort of like escalate towards systemic air attacks against targets in Ukraine, including decision making centres.

I mean, I think it does feel in terms of the air attacks that we're entering a more dangerous phase of the air war.

Yeah.

particularly since no one is in any doubt over the vulnerabilities of Ukrainians, certainly towards ballistic missiles.

And it feels like the comments today in response to this and the fact that they've chosen to respond so strongly feels like this is a spine-stiffening exercise for NATO and for Europe in the context of what we've already been seeing.

Thank you.