The countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and their partners have already delivered 230 tanks and 1,550 armored vehicles to Ukraine, announced this Thursday the secretary general of the military allianceJens Stoltenberg.
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The deliveries, he added, also contained “other equipment including huge amounts of ammunition“, in addition to the training of” another nine armored brigades.
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According to Stoltenberg, this volume of deliveries leaves Ukraine “in a very strong position to continue to regain territory.”
All this, he said, it represents “more than 98% of the combat vehicles promised to Ukraine.”
“Our message is clear: NATO will be with Ukraine for as long as it takes. We must stay the course and continue to provide Ukraine with what it needs to win,” Stoltenberg told a news conference with Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.
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Stoltenberg added that during the NATO summit in Lithuania in July, the alliance it intends to expand its support to Ukraine with a “multi-year support plan”.
At the same time, he indicated, at that summit the allies will discuss ways of distributing the weight of maintain this warlike support, “because in a more dangerous world we must invest more and better in our defense”.
It is Ukraine that decides what are the conditions for holding peace talks
In Stoltenberg’s view, however, the bloc should “never underestimate Russia.” The Russian army, he assured, mobilized more ground forces and seems “willing to send thousands of soldiers, with very high levels of casualties.”
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During the press conference, Stoltenberg welcomed the telephone conversation held the day before between the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, and the Chinese leader Xi Jimping, in whichBoth talked about an eventual negotiated solution to the conflict.
“Maybe this war will end at the negotiating table”he said, although he added that “it is Ukraine who decides what are the conditions for holding peace talks and what format these contacts should have.”
For Stoltenberg, “any possibility” of a meaningful peace negotiation requires Ukraine to have the military might to indicate to the Russian government “that it will not win on the battlefield”.
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Beijing’s initiative in promoting peace negotiations “does not change the fact that China has not condemned Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.”Stoltenberg added.
AFP
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