Will not send troops to Ukraine, says NATO amid Russian aggression
World | February 24, 2022 18:04 ISTNATO said that they don't have troops in Ukraine, and don't have any plans to send NATO troops into Ukraine
NATO said that they don't have troops in Ukraine, and don't have any plans to send NATO troops into Ukraine
NATO ambassadors said in a statement after emergency talks that “we have increased the readiness of our forces to respond to all contingencies.”
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said that Russian President Vladimir Putin "has unleased a war with Ukraine and the entire democratic world.”
While some member countries are supplying arms, ammunition and other equipment to Ukraine, NATO as an organisation is not, and it will not launch any military action in support of Ukraine, which is a close partner but has no prospect of joining.
The Russian President had also demanded an immediate end of Ukraine 'military operations'.
The address comes at a time of the West's growing tensions about the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
The death comes at a crucial time of West's fears of Russia invading the neighboring country.
Leaders of the separatist regions released televised statements earlier Monday pleading with Putin to recognize them as independent states and sign friendship treaties envisaging military aid to protect them from what they described as an ongoing Ukrainian military offensive
China's confident rise as an economic and political force contrasts with Russia's growing isolation and reversion to Cold War tactics of intimidation and bullying.
American officials who claimed to have seen some of the Kremlin's battle plans warned that a full scale bombardment of the country is being prepared.
An unidentified projectile fired from Ukraine completely destroyed a border facility used by the FSB border guard service in the Rostov region around 150 meters from the Russian-Ukrainian border, said Russian officials.
In a rapid-fire round of US talk shows, Secretary of State Antony Blinken had told CNN "everything we're seeing suggests that this is dead serious, that we are on the brink of an invasion".
The Russian President had told French President Emmanuel Macron that he plans to withdraw troops from Belarus.
Europe, US Vice President Kamala Harris said, might be at its most perilous moment since the end of World War II.
Western leaders warned that Russia was poised to attack its neighbor, which is surrounded on three sides by about 150,000 Russian soldiers, warplanes and equipment. Russia held nuclear drills Saturday in neighboring Belarus and has ongoing naval drills off the coast in the Black Sea.
Officials said EU's executive arm has developed a “robust and comprehensive package” of financial sanctions with the US, UK and Canada.
US officials dismissed claims of Russian troops withdrawal and said that the invasion is set for February 16 with a massive missile blitz and 200,000 troops.
A Britain minister stressed that Putin had now already deployed all military assets that are needed for the invasion. He added that the launch of missiles could come with 'no notice'.
Dutch airline KLM has canceled flights to Ukraine until further notice, the company said. The Ukrainian charter airline SkyUp said Sunday that its flight from Madeira, Portugal, to Kyiv was diverted to the Moldovan capital Chisinau after the plane's Irish lessor said it was banning flights in Ukrainian airspace.
US Prez Joe Biden made clear his stance over the ongoing tension between Ukraine and Russia and said that if Moscow undertook a further invasion of Kiev, Washington along with its allies will respond "decisively" and impose swift and severe costs on the country, according to a White House statement.
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