Nato to step up Ukraine support but won’t take risky steps

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says his organisation will offer more support to Ukraine but would not impose a No Fly Zone or deploy troops or planes on the ground. He said doing so is likely going to trigger a fully-fledged war.

Also, we hear from Oleksandr Danylyuk Ukraine’s former national security chief, now working with the civilian territorial defence mission plus a chat with one of the country’s greatest creative voices, novelist Andrei Kurkov.

Julian Worricker is joined by Arzu Geybulla, an Azerbaijani journalist with a special focus in human rights and press freedom, and David Rennie, a British journalist and Beijing bureau chief for the Economist newspaper.

(Photo: Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Antalya, Turkey. Credit: Murad Sezer/Reuters)