"NATO will continue to stand by Ukraine as long as it takes, we will not withdraw," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg pledged today.
At the meeting of foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Bucharest, Stoltenberg said: "We all pay a price because of Russia's war against Ukraine, but the price we pay is money, while the Ukrainians pay in blood. If we let Putin win, we will all pay a higher price for many years. To create Conditions for sustainable peace, which guarantees that Ukraine will win as an independent sovereign state, we must continue to provide military support to Ukraine."
Recently, Timothy Ash from the British research institute Chatham House estimated that investing in Ukraine is really a bonanza for the West in general and the US in particular. The reason: the US invests in Ukraine a tiny part of its huge defense budget and achieves major strategic goals.
"To spend only 5.6% of the budget to halve the military potential of the second competitor only to China? This is a huge investment," Ash wrote in an article published on the website of the Washington-based Institute for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).
Western M777 howitzer in service of the Ukrainian army.
"Increase production", photo: Reuters
In any case, Stoltenberg said at the meeting that the allies provided and will provide fuel, medicine, winter equipment, means to disrupt drones, as well as generators to help deal with the ongoing Russian damage to the Ukrainian energy infrastructure. .
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kulba, told the attendees that if NATO wanted Russia to lose, the member states of the alliance should increase the production of weapons. While the British Minister of Defense, James Calverley, said that "Russia is trying to freeze the Ukrainians so that they surrender" .
Meanwhile, another rocket artillery system arrived in Ukraine - this time from France.
Her photo was published on his Twitter account by the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Oleksiy Reznikov.
The 4th brother in the Long Hand family, LRU from 🇨🇵, has arrived in 🇺🇦! #UAarmy now is even more powerful for deterring & destroying the enemy.
That is a visible result of friendship between @ZelenskyyUa and @EmmanuelMacron
Thank you to @SebLecornu, the government & people of 🇨🇵!
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— Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) November 29, 2022
The NATO meeting was held in the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest - the place where, in 2008, George Bush Jr. convinced his partners to invite Ukraine and Georgia to the North Atlantic Alliance. Four months later, Russia invaded Georgia, and nine months ago - Ukraine. The two countries did not have been admitted to the organization so far, but Kyiv reluctantly became a senior partner of the alliance. Stoltenberg, for his part, assured that even today the organization's doors are open for it to join in the future.
Also on the agenda at the meeting: the implementation of NATO's new strategy, which includes the Chinese challenge, energy security and the strengthening of the military forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova and Georgia.
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