Commenting on the attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the territory of the Russian Federation, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine “has the right to defend itself”. Before the meeting of the foreign ministers of the alliance countries, he explained the issue to the journalists. DEA News.
He added that NATO will assist Ukraine “as needed”.
However, this does not make NATO and its members part of the conflict. “It was our decision to support Ukraine without being a party to the conflict,” Stoltenberg said.
According to him, the North Atlantic Alliance has two tasks in this regard: to support Ukraine and to prevent the conflict from spreading beyond this country’s borders.
In recent months, Russia’s border areas have been repeatedly attacked by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, especially the Belgorod and Bryansk regions.
Thus, on June 1, the Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov reportedThat the Shebekinsky district is under constant shelling of the Ukrainian army.
Unmanned aerial vehicles on the morning of May 30 was attacked Moscow and Moscow region. The UN condemned the attack. The National Security Council at the White House said it “does not support” attacks inside the Russian Federation.
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley said that Kiev has the right to use military force outside Ukraine’s territory for self-defense.