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This is crunch time and I think we're not starting from a great place because the fact that it has taken over a year to produce it [the Defence Investment Plan] does not suggest that we're in a healthy place in terms of agreement on the necessary funding."

The Nato Force Model covers contingency planning, so this just means that the ‘assumed bill’ for support is changing.”

What that means is that if you’re Russia… your mechanism for applying military pressure on Ukraine is diminished,” Withington told CNN. “I think that given this situation on the ground, the use of air power is possibly the only avenue actually now open to the Russian leadership in terms of hoping to have any kind of strategic effect on Ukraine.”