This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

Ukraine conflict, a momentous week.

I welcome Anatole Levin of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, the Eurasia Project, we're looking right now

at after Donald Trump's remarks, after the phone call between President of the United States

and the President of Russia, after the drone attacks, waves of them into Kiev and burning

buildings, after the counter by Ukraine, waves of them into Kiev and burning buildings. After the counter by Ukraine, waves of

drones not only against Moscow's factories, but all factories, as far as I could tell, across

the region, a vast attack. And promising more, we have this headline from Berlin. You will recall that Berlin and Moscow have history.

German Chancellor promises to help Ukraine produce long-range weapons.

This is BBC.

We want to talk about production, and we will not publicly discuss details, said Friedrich Merritt,

when asked by reporters in Berlin, if Germany would supply

Keefe with its tourist missiles, Merz took office earlier this month. You bet he did. This is the new

chancellor. This is not all of Schultz. However, Anatole, a very good evening to you. Thank you for

this. The remarks by Merits are regarded as hawkish in Germany. Do you regard them as

hawkish? Is this a surprising change of direction for Germany? Good evening to you.

Evening, John. No, I wouldn't say it's a change of direction. It's an intensification of, you know,

a process which has been going on in stages since the Russian invasion of, you know, a process which has been going on in stages since the Russian

invasion of, you know, increasing German supplies to Ukraine. I mean, I think that there are two

interesting things, one good and one not so good about this. One is that clearly the Germans are now thinking of how to strengthen Ukraine's

own military production in the long run. In other words, after a ceasefire or peace settlement

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