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00:00 The UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron continued a visit to Ukraine,
00:04 here planting a tree with the mayor of Lviv in the west of the country.
00:07 The UK during the visit has announced around 3.5 billion euros in annual military aid.
00:13 Attention has focused on Cameron's statement in Kiev on Thursday,
00:18 saying Ukraine could use British weapons against targets inside Russia.
00:22 Ukraine has that right.
00:23 Just as Russia is striking inside Ukraine,
00:27 you can quite understand why Ukraine feels the need to make sure it's defending itself,
00:33 it's getting the Russians out of its country and it has the ability to strike back.
00:37 In Moscow, Cameron's statement, along with one by the French president
00:41 repeating he doesn't exclude sending troops to Ukraine,
00:44 was described as dangerous by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
00:47 This is a direct escalation of tension around the Ukrainian conflict,
00:53 which could potentially pose a danger to European security,
00:56 we note this dangerous tendency to escalate tension in official statements.
01:01 Emmanuel Macron was asked in this week's edition of The Economist,
01:05 "Do you stand by what you said about possibly sending ground troops to Ukraine?"
01:09 And the French president replied, "Absolutely.
01:12 As I said, I'm not ruling anything out,
01:14 because we are facing someone who is not ruling anything out."
01:17 In terms of diplomacy, Macron will next week make a new push
01:24 to try and dissuade the Chinese president Xi Jinping
01:27 from supporting Putin's war against Ukraine.
01:29 Russia, in another statement on Friday, said it was ready to consider serious proposals
01:35 to settle the Ukraine conflict based on what it said were existing realities.
01:40 The conditions made were no different to ones Ukraine has rejected several times in the past.