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Each week on the BBC World Service, I look at one of the biggest issues in the news.

This time, it's NATO and the Ukraine crisis.

We have made it very clear we're ready to continue talks in good faith with Russia.

But if Russia makes a choice to further invade Ukraine, we are jointly ready and all of NATO is ready.

As US President Joe Biden is well aware, there are around 125,000 Russian troops close to Ukraine's border.

The economist describes this as the biggest concentration of firepower in Europe since the Cold War.

And note how Joe Biden refers to NATO being ready.

The military alliance, and Russia, is focused on it too.

The NATO member country is continued to send a large amount of modern weapons to Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin is right.

It's true that recent NATO members have sent military hardware to Ukraine.

It's also true NATO's bolstering its defenses in Eastern Europe.

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