Russia and Ukraine: how sending weapons to Ukraine can escalate the war with Russia
NATO members met in Brussels last week to discuss how far they should go in supplying Ukraine with military equipment.
The challenge for NATO throughout this war has been how to give Ukraine enough military support to defend itself, but without getting drawn into the conflict and finding itself in war with Russia.
The Ukrainian government has been explicit in its orders for help.
If you want to have any chance of defend against the upcoming Russian assault on the Donbass region in the east of the country, Ukraine says, then it urgently needs the West to supply it with more of the anti-tank weapons and anti-aircraft missiles than its forces have been using in this war.
But Ukraine wants more.
Six weeks of devastation and resistance in Ukraine while the rest of the world tries to li deal with the effects of the conflict