RAMSTEIN, Germany: All NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will eventually become a member of the alliance but the main focus now is to ensure the country prevails against Russia, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday.
Speaking ahead of a meeting of the Ukraine defense contact group at Ramstein air base in Germany, he also told reporters that, once the war in Ukraine ends, Kyiv must have “the deterrence to prevent new attacks.”
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NATO’s Stoltenberg reaffirms Ukraine to eventually join alliance
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NATO’s Stoltenberg reaffirms Ukraine to eventually join alliance
UK, French, German leaders call Russia’s use of Oreshnik missile ‘unacceptable’
- “It was clear Russia was using fabricated allegations to justify the attack,” Starmer said
LONDON: Russia’s use of an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in western Ukraine was “escalatory and unacceptable,” the leaders of Britain, France and Germany agreed in a call on Friday, a UK government spokeswoman said.
“It was clear Russia was using fabricated allegations to justify the attack,” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told the French and German leaders in the call, according to the spokeswoman.
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