MADRID —
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday urged alliance leaders heading to a
summit in Madrid to keep up their backing for Ukraine as it faces an onslaught
from Russia.
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“It is extremely
important that we are ready to continue to provide support because Ukraine now
faces a brutality which we haven’t seen in
Europe since World War II,”
Stoltenberg said ahead of the gathering in Spain.
NATO allies have
funneled billions of dollars of arms to Kyiv — including increasingly heavy and
longer-range weapons — as it battles to hold back the Kremlin’s forces.
The alliance is set
to agree an additional joint package at the summit in Madrid that will include
secure communications equipment, anti-drone systems and training to help
Ukraine switch to more modern Western weapons in the longer term.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky — who is set to address NATO leaders — tweeted that he had
spoken to Stoltenberg in the run-up to stress “the importance of a powerful
missile defense system for Ukraine to prevent Russian terrorist attacks”.
That call came
after a Russian missile strike on a mall in the central Ukrainian city of
Kremenchuk, which drew angry condemnation from Kyiv’s Western backers.
Russia’s invasion
of Ukraine has shaken NATO and reshaped the security situation in Europe.
Stoltenberg has said the
US-led military alliance will
unveil the largest overhaul of its defense and deterrence since the end of the
Cold War.
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