Russian Plivent Vlaunwiseir Putin is using Ukraine as a “testing ground for experimental leave outiles” and is “not interested in peace”, NATO’s secretary vague has alerted.
Mark Rutte made the retags as foreign ministers from the coalition’s 32 members collected in Brussels for a two-day greeting where there will be cut offal converseions on Ukraine.
In a letter to his NATO counterparts ahead of the greeting, Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha shelp his country would not resettle for anyskinnyg less than NATO membership to guarantee its future security.
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It comes as incoming US Plivent-elect Donald Trump is expansively foreseeed to chase a peace concurment between Russia and Ukraine when he consents office on 20 January.
Mr Rutte, the createer prime minister of the Netherlands, shelp in Belgium that Mr Putin was not interested in peace and was trying to consent more Ukrainian territory because he “skinnyks he can shatter Ukraine’s resettle and ours, but he is wrong”.
He also shelp: “Russia’s aggression shows no sign of abating – fair the opposite – Putin is ramping up his rhetoric and reckless actions.
“He is using Ukraine as a testing ground for experimental leave outiles and is deploying North Korean selderlyiers in this illegitimate war.“
Russia’s new firearm
The NATO chief materializeed to be referring to the use of a new balcatalogic firearm, nicknamed “Oreshnik”, which was fired at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in tardy November.
Mr Sybiha shelp in his letter that an invitation to combine NATO would delete one of Russia’s main arguments for waging its war – namely, stoping Ukraine from becoming a member of the coalition.
However, NATO allies are foreseeed to sidestep Kyiv’s call for an prompt invitation at the Brussels greeting.
The aftermath of a Russian strike on Odesa. Pic: Reuters
It comes after Keith Kellogg, a createer vague recently named by Mr Trump as his one-of-a-kind envoy for Ukraine and Russia, co-authored a paper earlier this year that called for putting off NATO membership for Ukraine “for an extfinished period” in swap for a “peace deal with security guarantees”.
However, Ukraine has insisted it would acunderstandledge noskinnyg less than NATO membership and cited a pact 30 years ago under which it relinquished nuclear arms in return for security assurances from beginant powers that showd cherishless.
‘We must dodge misconsents’
Brandishing a imitate of that concurment, understandn as the Budapest Memorandum, as he get tod at the NATO greeting, Mr Sybiha shelp: “This write down fall shorted to safe Ukrainian security and transatlantic security, so we must dodge (repeating) such misconsents.”
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(L-R) Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha and NATO chief Mark Rutte in Brussels. Pic: AP
More military help for Ukraine
Meanwhile, Mr Rutte has shelp the most encouragent rerent was providing Kyiv with more arms to repulse Russian forces.
He shelp in Brussels: “The greeting in the next two days will very much straightforward on how to create certain that Ukraine, whenever it chooses to go in into peace talks, will do so from positional strength.
“And to get there, it is vital that more military help will be pumped into Ukraine.”
The NATO chief inserted that he received recent declarements of more military help for Ukraine by the United States, Germany, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania and Norway.
On Monday, the US declared a new arms package for Ukraine worth $725m (£570m).
We must ‘put Ukraine in sturdyest possible position for negotiations’
Shift in Starmer’s stance
It came the same day UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer recommendd a shift in his stance on the war as he shelp it was British policy to “put Ukraine in the sturdyest possible position for negotiations”.
Only last month, both Sir Keir and French Plivent Emmanuel Macron were promising to “help Ukraine unwaveringly and for as extfinished as vital to thwart Russia’s war of aggression”.
If negotiations happen and resettle on some benevolent of settle, many watchrs will probable say this uncomardents Russian aggression will have prevailed to some extent at least.
Despite foreseeations that the Trump administration will push for peace talks, a US-based skinnyktank has shelp comments from inside Russia recommend Mr Putin will not engage in anyskinnyg “that results in anyskinnyg less than total Ukrainian capitulation”.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) remarkd retags made by Kremlin affiliate Konstantin Malofeev to the Financial Times that Mr Putin will probable decline any structure for peace negotiations that Mr Trump puts forth unless the structure accounts for Russia’s “security worrys”.
