“Moscow bears sole responsibility for the deliberate, cold-blooded and long-planned invasion,” said NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg. He chairs the NATO special summit on Ukraine.
The heads of state and government of the NATO countries have started their special summit on the Russian war in Ukraine. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on Russia to end the military operation.
At the same time, the Norwegian once again strongly condemned the war. “Moscow bears sole responsibility for the deliberate, cold-blooded, and long-planned invasion,” he said. Stoltenberg expressed NATO’s solidarity with the people of Ukraine.
The crisis summit via video link should be about exchanging views on the current situation and discussing how NATO should react to the changed security situation. Allies like Germany have already moved three more Eurofighters to Romania to protect NATO’s south-eastern flank.
Poland and the Czech Republic block airspace for Russia
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has announced that Polish airspace will be closed to Russian planes because of the Russian attack on Ukraine. “I have commissioned the preparation of a Council of Ministers resolution that will result in the airspace being closed to Russian airlines,” the national conservative politician wrote on Twitter on Friday. The TV news channel TVN24 then reported, citing government spokesman Piotr Mueller, that a corresponding law should take effect as early as midnight.
The Czech Republic joins the Polish move, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said after a cabinet meeting on Friday. The Ministry of Transport in Prague announced that Russian airlines have to stop their air traffic to and from the Czech Republic. This applies from midnight on Saturday night. Meanwhile, the state-owned Czech Railways announced that it would send two trains to the Polish-Ukrainian border that can take refugees.
Source: Stern
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