2024-01-10 17:24:48
Representatives of the 31 NATO countries and Ukraine met on Wednesday followingnoon to discuss the latest developments in the war zone. The government in Kiev had asked for the meeting in the format of the NATO-Ukraine Council. The main reason for this was the heavy Russian missile attacks over the New Year. According to diplomats, the meeting was intended to focus in particular on Ukraine’s need for further assistance in the area of air defense.
An exchange regarding the alleged delivery of North Korean missiles to Russia and their use once morest Ukraine was also expected. The NATO-Ukraine Council last met at foreign minister level in November. The committee was set up last summer at the alliance summit in Lithuania and is intended to enable closer cooperation until the conditions for Ukraine to join NATO are met. These include, among other things, an end to the Russian war of aggression and reforms in Ukraine.
No major announcements or decisions from NATO were expected following the deliberations this Wednesday. However, it was not ruled out that individual allies would make new bilateral support commitments. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote regarding the meeting on Platform X that the central topic would be strengthening Ukraine’s air defense. “An important sign of Euro-Atlantic unity in the face of the escalation of Russian terror.”
Russia attacked Ukraine three times before and following the New Year with combined rockets, cruise missiles and combat drones. They were the heaviest air raids to date. According to the government in Warsaw, a Russian missile briefly violated Polish airspace and thus NATO territory.
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