NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced a long-term initiative Tuesday to help Ukraine transition Soviet-era military hardware to Atlantic Alliance standards.
“It is our long-term commitment: to bring [à Ucrânia] of the transatlantic family,” Stoltenberg said at a press conference at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, after a meeting between the foreign ministers of the organization’s member states. , with the participation of the head of Ukrainian diplomacy Dmytro Kuleba.
Therefore, the Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance announced a “multi-year initiative” to help Ukraine “transition from Soviet-era equipment to NATO standards.”
“[O Presidente russo, Vladimir] Putin has not changed the course of the war and believes that Russia can overcome our support,” he added.
In what was also the first meeting with the participation of Finland as a member state of the political-military alliance, Stoltenberg announced that “the first Leopard and Challenger tanks are already in Ukraine”, including the three Leopard 02 A6s made available by Portugal. – and that until this Tuesday there was support for kyiv of 150,000 million euros, of which 65,000 million euros in military equipment.
The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on February 24 last year, plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
Source: TSF
