NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the countries of the North Atlantic alliance failed to ‘reinforce’ Ukraine sufficiently before the start of the Ukrainian conflict.
‘I regret that NATO allies and the USA itself did not do more to strengthen Ukraine earlier,’ Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.
According to the NATO secretary-general, the training of Ukrainian servicemen by Western instructors and the transfer of weapons to Kiev ‘were very limited’. He specified that the North Atlantic alliance countries could have done ‘much more’.
At the same time, the official stressed that NATO countries spent a long period of time before 2022 in arguments about what weapons should be supplied to Ukraine and how not to provoke Russia with their actions.
Moreover, the politician noted that now the countries of the Collective West were arming Ukraine ‘for war’. At the same time, he said, if the Western countries had managed to ‘strengthen’ Kiev until 2022, then this step would have ‘prevented the war’.
Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the ‘minimum condition’ for Ukraine to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was the fact of winning the conflict with Russia.
