“unmerciful” war in ukraine returns to the center this Wednesday and Thursday Atlantic alliance foreign ministers meetingAfter learning of the atrocities committed in Bucha and other parts of the country that, in the opinion of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, demonstrate the “true nature of war” initiated by Russian President Vladimir Putin. When they arrived at the meeting, attended by the Ukrainian minister, Dimytro KulebaHe stressed once again that Putin’s plans to “control all Ukraine and rewrite the international order” remained unchanged and warned that it is necessary to prepare for a long war and continue to rearm Ukraine.
“We are at a critical stage of the war. We see Russia withdrawing its forces from the north to strengthen, resupply, re-arm, and then transfer them to the East, where we expect a major offensive.” At Tuesday’s meeting, Putin’s target is still check all Donbas and set up a kind land bridge with Crimea. He stressed that, despite this change in tactics, “there are “no signs” that the Russian president has changed his goal of taking control of all of Ukraine, and so we must be prepared to wage a war that may last for a long time. The Allied chief warned it could take “months or even years”.
Therefore, he argued that he continued to support the Atlantic Alliance. government Volodymyr Zelensky and strengthen your defense and deterrence capacity “because this may take a long time and we must be prepared”. Concerning the massacres in Bucha and other Ukrainian cities, he stated that these revealed “the true nature of President Putin’s wars” and that they were “war crimes” that needed to be investigated. “At this point we believe Russian troops are responsible, but we are in the middle of gathering and collecting evidence, so it’s too early to say definitively what happened and where. But we’re pretty confident we can gather the evidence we need to hold Putin accountable,” the US ambassador said on the eve of the meeting. , Julianne Smith.
Foreign ministers will also attend the NATO meeting. Georgia, Finland, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Republic of Koreahead of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell and Ukrainian Minister Kuleba, because “hearing directly from Ukrainians their assessment of developments on the ground and seeing what else we can do to help them,” says Smith.
New strategic concept
In addition to the situation in Ukraine, the meeting will also serve to prepare the new situation. NATO strategic concepta document they began drafting last year and which allied leaders plan to ratify at the meeting. NATO Heads of State and Government Summit in Madrid, and this should respond to the new security reality of the next decade. “This will be NATO’s roadmap and way of tackling a more dangerous world and ensuring that we continue to protect and defend all NATO allies,” Stoltenberg said.
This new concept will, for example, address security implications. russian invasion and war, shifts in the global balance of power, the security implications of a much stronger China, and the challenges Russia and China pose to the rules-based international order. The document should also describe the strategy to be followed in the face of network challenges, hybrid attacks or terrorism and the security implications of climate change.