NATO is ready to continue its support for Ukraine in the war against Russia for years, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said today.
He spoke after the Kremlin warned that the supply of Western weapons, including heavy weapons, to Ukraine poses a threat to the security of the European continent and “causes instability”.
“We need to be prepared for the long term,” Stoltenberg said at a youth summit in Brussels. “There’s certainly the possibility that this war will and will continue for months, years.”
The NATO chief said the West will continue to push Russian President Vladimir Putin as best it can to end the invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow has dubbed a “special military operation”, through sanctions and economic and military aid to Kiev.
“NATO allies are poised to provide support over the long term and also to assist Ukraine’s transition from obsolete Soviet-era equipment to more modern NATO weapons and systems that require more training,” Stoltenberg said. said.
Most of the heavy weapons NATO countries have sent to Ukraine so far are Soviet-made weapons in stocks in Eastern European NATO member states, but the United States and some other allies have begun supplying Western howitzers to Kiev.
Germany announced on Tuesday the deployment of Gepard tanks equipped with anti-aircraft guns to Ukraine, and Berlin confirmed for the first time the delivery of heavy weapons to Kiev.
Ukraine’s calls for heavy weapons have intensified since Moscow moved its offensive to the Donbas, a flat, open eastern region considered more suitable for tank warfare than the areas in the north, where most previous battles had been fought for tank warfare.
source: Noticias
