From the BBC World Service, this is a special collaborative edition of the Global News podcast.
With our colleagues from UkraineCast,
I'm Jackie Leonard and in the studio we have Ukraine cast presenter Vitaly Shevchenko
and our chief international correspondent Lise Doucet.
And in Kiev we have James Waterhouse.
We are recording this edition at 16 hours GMT on Friday 7th March.
That's 1,108 days since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine.
Events are moving very fast and we'll be putting your questions to our experts
and trying to unpick some of the issues that have come to the fore in the last week.
Now, we want to get through as many questions as possible.
So let's begin with Denise.
Hi, my name is Denise and I'm from Auckland, New Zealand.
I'm exploring worst case scenarios and my.
Question and concern is what happens if US stops supporting Ukraine and eventually they.
Will have no choice but to surrender to Russia.
Now, for the last three years of war, America has been Ukraine's largest donor.
The decision to freeze military aid follows
that very public disagreement in the Oval Office between Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. vance.
James, if we begin with you, what if the US never restarts its military support?