BBCNEWS BBC News at One June 4, 2024 13:06:00
From the battlefield is that the war might spread beyond ukraine. a year on, a new irpin bridge and the old challenge — avoiding direct confrontation between russia and nato. the way that the ukrainians stopped the russians just back there changed every calculation about the war. nato saw it had an ally worth supporting and then moved very fast to do that. now, that has carried some heavy costs — economic, a massive military commitment, and even a risk of nuclear war. now, the ukrainians are conscious that future nato governments might not want to carry that heavy a burden, which is why th...