Meanwhile, NATO announced this Friday in a statement that its member states had decided to take “additional steps” to strengthen “defense throughout the alliance.” “Our measures are preventive, proportionate, and non-scalable,” the text states.
The Alliance has no troops in Ukraine and no plans to deploy them there, the secretary general of the military alliance said on Friday. Jens Stoltenberg.
“We have no plans to send NATO troops to Ukraine,” the official in Brussels said. NATO activated its defense plans – a step that grants authority to military commands to move troops – with the aim of reinforcing the defense of the alliance’s countries.
The exceptional summit will take place after the French president, Emmanuel Macrondemanded this Thursday a NATO meeting “as soon as possible”, as a result of the offensive ordered by his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Ukraine.
The president “wishes for a NATO summit to be held as soon as possible, in consultation with our partners and allies,” the Elysee said, following a similar request from the British prime minister, Boris Johnson.
The countries of the European Union (EU), who fear a new refugee crisis as a result of the war in Ukraine, condemned the Russian aggression and demanded that Putin cease the attack and withdraw military forces and equipment from the neighboring country.
“Russia bears full responsibility for this act of aggression and all the destruction and human loss that it entails. It will pay for its actions,” they stressed in a statement.
“Russia must have no doubt that the EU will remain determined and united on the next steps to be taken in coordination with partners,” he added.
Early this Thursday, the US president, Joe Bidendenounced Russia’s “unjustified attack” against Ukraine.
“President Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring catastrophic loss of life and human suffering,” he said in a statement. “Russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction that this attack will cause,” Biden insisted, after assuring that “the world will hold Russia accountable”.
The Russian offensive “must stop now,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres implored after an emergency meeting of the Security Council.
“President Putin, in the name of humanity, bring the troops back to Russia,” said Guterres, after stating that this is “the saddest day” he has had at the head of the UN.
Source: Ambito
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