The war in Ukraine was this Wednesday at the heart of a NATO summit in Madrid, where the leaders of the member states met to discuss the future of the Atlantic Alliance, which Sweden and Finland will be able to join. after the lifting of the Turkish veto.
NATO is experiencing “its most serious security crisis since the Second World War”, declared the organization’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, before opening the debate.
Alliance Revamp
During this summit, notably intended to revise the Alliance’s roadmap for the first time since 2010, “we are going to say clearly that Russia represents a direct threat to our security”, he added.
The NATO countries will approve in Madrid a reinforcement of their forces on the eastern flank of the Alliance and decide to increase the number of their forces at a high level of readiness “well above” 300,000 soldiers.
“This is the most significant overhaul of our collective defense since the Cold War,” Stoltenberg said.
An intervention by Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will speak twice on Wednesday morning by videoconference at the summit, as kyiv continues to demand more arms deliveries from its partners.
The NATO countries, which have already provided billions of dollars in aid to kyiv, will agree in Madrid “on a comprehensive assistance program for Ukraine to help it enforce its right to legitimate defense,” Jens Stoltenberg promised on Tuesday.
“NATO has supported Ukraine since the beginning” of the conflict “and will continue” to do so, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo insisted on Wednesday, believing that “the war” could only be won “on the field of battle “.
Vladimir Putin on everyone’s lips
Norway announced Wednesday the dispatch of three batteries of MLRS long-range rocket launchers, which Ukraine claims to counter the Russian army. On Tuesday, the German and Dutch defense ministers announced the delivery of six additional howitzers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin “expected less from NATO on his western front following his illegal invasion of Ukraine”, but “he was completely wrong”: “he is getting more NATO”, judged the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Source: 20minutes
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