The Secretary General of the Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, has stated that there is no “clarity” or “certainty” about Moscow’s intentions and that the Russian military build-up continues in Ukraine.
The general secretary of the NATO, Jens Stoltenberghas stressed that the Alliance is “concerned” about the possibility that Russia will try to carry out a bogus operation in eastern Ukraine, designed to look like an attack on Russians or Russian-speakers in Ukraine as an excuse to enter Ukrainian territory.
“We are concerned that Russia is trying to stage a pretext for an armed attack against Ukraine,” the Norwegian politician said at a press conference after the second day of the NATO ministers’ meeting in Brussels. As he has underlined, there is no “clarity” or “certainty” about Moscow’s intentions.
“We don’t know what will happenbut what we know is that Russia has built up the largest force we’ve seen in Europe in decades in and around Ukraine, and we also know that there are a lot of Russian spies operating in Ukraine, they’re present in Donbas (the Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine) pro-Russian separatists),” he assured.
Despite Moscow’s statements about a withdrawal of its forces around UkraineStoltenberg has said that they do not see a de-escalation, but rather that the military build-up continues.
Source: Eitb
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