The Spectator magazine is home to wonderful writing, insightful analysis and unrivaled books and

arts reviews. Subscribe today for just £12 and receive a 12 week subscription in print and online,

along with a free £20 £10,000 or Waitrose Voucher. Go to spectator.com. UK forward slash voucher.

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Oscar Edmondson,

and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Mark Galiotti, who is head of Mayak Intelligence

and also an honorary professor at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

Now, Kyrs Stama is in Ukraine today on his first visit to Kiev since becoming prime minister,

and he came bearing gifts.

Mark, I don't suppose you could take us through this treaty that he's offering.

Yes, look, it's got the rather grandiloquent sort of label of being a hundred-year treaty.

And like all of these treaties tends to be, it's rather more about show than about real content.

There is some genuine content in there, particularly in terms of military cooperation,

which is very valuable, and a continued commitment to the current £3 billion every year

in military aid. A lot of the rest, though, did to me, to my cynical mind,

look a little bit like they were just casting round for initiatives. So we've got lots of talk

about scientific and technical partnerships, which really will, it only is going to kick in once

there is some kind of a piece. Building lifelong friendships with classroom partnerships

between Ukrainian and British schools. 40 million pounds to kickstart economic recovery. Well,

40 million pounds means a lot to you and me, but in terms of governments, it's essentially the

money that you find reaching behind the sofa cushions.

I mean, it's equivalent to what the RAF is spending to develop its new helmet for fighter pilots, for example. So on the one hand, I must admit, I have to give Starmer full credit

for not just simply rushing over there for a photo opportunity with Vladimir Zelensky,

...