“We have to prepare in the long run. Because what we see is that this war has become a war of attrition,” Stoltenberg told reporters.
Regarding the support provided to Ukraine, Stoltenberg revealed that NATO has provided Kyiv with missiles with a longer range and greater accuracy, adding that the alliance’s goal is to enable Ukraine to achieve a superiority in the field.
The Secretary-General of NATO stressed that the alliance will continue to support Ukraine and also prevent the escalation of the war so that it does not turn into a comprehensive one with NATO.
Attention is directed to the Atlantic Summit of leaders and leaders of NATO member states in Madrid at the end of this month, where there are frequent indications that the alliance may go to the extent of declaring Russia an enemy and a strategic threat to it, in light of the intensification of the Russian-Atlantic confrontation against the backdrop of the Ukrainian war, which has been going on for 100 days. Amid speculation that it will last for months, perhaps years.
The statements of the permanent representative of the United States to NATO, Julian Smith, about the summit’s intention to adopt the new strategic concept of NATO, which includes declaring Russia a major threat to it.
“The development of the strategic concept is not yet complete, but I think we generally agree that Russia is the primary challenge and threat facing NATO,” Smith said during a meeting with the “Group of Military Analysts” in Washington, DC.
Observers and experts believe that the post-Ukrainian war world is not what it was before, and that the two main confrontational sides, NATO and Russia, are both in the process of reassessing, reviewing, and adopting new tactics and strategies, in line with challenges with the aftermath of the Ukraine crisis and the resulting new facts and equations around the world.
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