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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, a spectator's daily politics podcast. I'm Katie Balls

and I'm joined by James Hill and Mark Galliotti, the director of Myak Intelligence. Now, as the week began, we had much talk of how Kirstama could act as a bridge

between the US and Ukraine. We also had much praise for Kirstama in the House of Commons on

Monday, cross-party support suggesting he had found

his inner statesman. But the facts are such, James, that in the time that has passed,

he now faces a more uncertain situation when it comes to the US. They have redrawn some help

from Ukraine. Can you talk us through the developments overnight that

Kirstama is now having to adjust to? Sure. So yesterday Kirstama gave a lengthy statement,

hour and a half in the House of Commons. And one key point, I think, was when Stephen Flynn

stood up and said, what about potential reports about the America pausing aid to Ukraine? Kirstama

responded saying, I haven't seen those reports,

and I understand that not to be the case.

Overnight has now developed that actually Donald Trump has now paused that aid to Ukraine

and also produced a number of statements suggesting that time is running out for Vladimir Zelensky.

He thought very little of Zelensky's statement that peace was very, very far away.

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