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And there is a thought that president putin wants to restore the soviet union — that's what the president of lithuania has said. yes, i think the one headline i will give is don't underestimate weakness. the vice foreign minister just explained that, indeed, putin has shown his weakness in not being able to basically so far conduct successfully a military campaign over ukraine, and this is a good thing, in a way, that he's failing, but failure can also be dangerous because that means he's going to fall back on what basically russia still has going for itself, which is nuclear weapons, cruise...

Of the european union's delegation to ukraine, matti maasikas. ukraine's ambassador to lithuania, petro beshta. and the former nato director of policy, fabrice pothier. including with the current secretary general, jens stoltenberg. well, give them another round of applause. that's our panel. welcome to you all. and remember, you too can join the conversation — it's #bbcglobalquestions. we've got so much to get through today so, without further ado, let's go to our first question. monica, your question please? i would like to know what happens - if putin decides to movel to the baltic states...

To suppose that lithuania might be the one to attack because we have the suwalki gap, the 100km that separates us from poland, which is the only land linked to a nato country and the rest of nato by land, but i would like us to be less apprehensive about this because what the war in ukraine has showed is two things — one, is that, yes, the kremlin regime is cynical, aggressive, absolutely murderous in its intent, but also, militarily, quite weak. the fact that we are in nato, the fact that we are protected by nato security guarantees is, i think, a great reassurance that we are certainly sup...

You should ask our leaders what is the moral threshold when they will have an imperative to intervene? this is a real question. and, sadly, we are waiting for that while, in my view... we are sadly waiting for more people to die? i think that's what leaders are doing. can i ask you, deputy foreign minister, do you agree with that, that we have to see more ukrainian bodies pile up before nato has to act? the political will to act has been mobilising very quickly and i hope, and lithuania will do everything in its power that in the coming days, we see — we see sort of much more readiness to mo...

Nato, as an alliance, is stronger than russia. russia is nothing but, to quote, "the upper volta with nuclear weapons. " to look at its economy, to look at the structure of its governance and so on and so forth, it is a corrupt, backward state that only can thrive because it has this nuclear weapon. but, of course, while fighting that war, it can create, it can do a lot of damage, kill lots of people because they are not concerned for human lives, they are not concerned for humanitarian rules, so our goal should not just be to have deterrent as a sort of abstract thing but to have a very activ...