TODAY: US and Russia in now solid opposition on a number of issues including NATO and Litvinenko, leaders to meet on Sunday. Russia shows further opposition to Kosovo and Ukraine as Bush calls for push of support for Ukraine and Georgia. Survey suggests public perception of Russia improving. Russia has sent its first planeload of humanitarian aid to Belgrade for delivery to the Serb minority in Kosovo. This is thought to be a retaliation by President Vladimir Putin to President George Bush’s announcement that the US would supply Kosovo with arms. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia will not allow Kosovo to become a member of the United Nations, and Russia has reiterated its opposition to Ukraine joining NATO, just as Bush urged NATO members to “send a signal” in support of independence and democracy for Ukraine and Georgia by welcoming their bids for membership in the alliance. One British newspaper accuses him of “throwing down the gauntlet,” and another says that Bush and Putin appear to be “on a collision course”. “[S]ome Western diplomats in Moscow say they are dismayed by the American-led push to get Ukraine and Georgia into the Nato club right now”.