In a press conference this Thursday (24) after the meeting of the leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the secretary general of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the troops deployed in Eastern Europe are preparing to stay in the region. in a “more perpetual manner” because of the “long-term” implications of the war in Ukraine.
“We are preparing for the long term because we can say that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has altered our security environment in the long term. It’s a new reality, it’s the new normal, and NATO is responding accordingly,” said Stoltenbeg.
“Leaders have agreed to offer more options for a long-term reset, and the details will be decided at our summit in July,” he added.
Furthermore, Stoltenbeg said that nods were given to a “significant increase” in defense spending by each member country.
Immediately, the summit meeting in Brussels, Belgium, decided to maintain military support to Ukraine through the deployment of new defense weapons, drones and maritime and air assistance equipment, as well as establishing three new additional allied forces points in Bulgaria. , Romania and Slovakia, detailed the Secretary-General.
“NATO leaders have agreed that we will provide more support to Ukraine. We will continue to impose unprecedented costs on Russia and strengthen our defense forces. So there will be eight NATO troops deployed from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea,” he said, repeating the figure of 100,000 US troops and 40,000 troops under NATO command who are already in the field.
Asked later about how the allies received requests from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to increase the deployment of military apparatus to Ukraine, Stoltenberg endorsed that NATO “was doing everything they can”, but with the “responsibility” of not leveraging even more the dimensions of the war.
“What I can say is that the allies are doing everything they can, in an armament way, so that Ukraine can defend itself, but we have a responsibility to prevent this conflict from becoming a full-blown war in Europe — not just against Ukraine, but against all NATO allies.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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