00:00 Do you think that the West is doing sufficient to give Ukraine enough armour and so forth
00:08 to keep the Russians at bay and one day take their country back?
00:12 I think it's insufficient.
00:16 Is there more that we could do, for example, a vehicle that I'm very familiar with, and
00:22 others probably are too, the Warrior vehicle, which is being retired, hundreds of which
00:26 have already been retired, we have 625 I understand.
00:30 Has there been any consideration to give some of those to Ukraine?
00:36 To give a slightly longer version, I do think that we need to do more.
00:40 I think it's unthinkable that we would lose this war to Putin.
00:47 I think we easily have the facility and capability not to lose this war, but it requires everyone
00:54 to lean their shoulders into it.
00:57 I was in Ukraine a couple of weeks ago having exactly this conversation with Zelensky.
01:02 I think that the catastrophic outcome of losing the war would be far more expensive than ensuring
01:11 that Ukraine is in a position to win it.
01:14 So I am, with that frame in mind, again looking through all of our stocks, including things
01:24 which could be retired, now two years on, things have moved on again to have another
01:29 scrub through the inventory.
01:31 But more to the point, because we have been incredibly generous in our gifting, I'm also
01:37 working on and with, or with and on I would say, our partners, of which there are 52 countries
01:44 in the Ukraine defence contact group, to make sure that they are also really digging deep
01:53 to ensure that they assist.
01:55 And so I look at, for example, our contribution in all things, including areas like long-range
02:03 missiles for example, but in many other areas as well, to make sure that we aren't an outlier
02:09 whilst others aren't giving as much.
02:12 Those things are very important.
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