NATO does not know what will happen to Ukraine. The Alliance continues to wait for the second day in Russia – Panorama International
BRUSSELS, 17 February. /TASS/. NATO defense ministers began a scheduled two-day meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss issues around Ukraine and the containment of Russia.
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The Alliance of Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg admitted at a press conference that the bloc does not know how the situation around the nature of Ukraine will develop further, whether Russia is going to invade its territory or, but there are no clarifications that Moscow has all the necessary opportunities for this. Despite the lack of intentions of the Russian Federation, the secretary general ordered that the alliance “will denounce the actions of Russia,” that is, conduct its own propaganda campaign.
Stoltenberg also spoke of a “new reality in Europe” in which Russia is using force and criminalizing its use to change the post-cold security system. He is obliged to strengthen the defense of the alliance and deploy it on the eastern flank, in particular, in the factions, the new NATO battle groups.
The ministers proposed a short proposal on Ukraine, which does not use fundamentally new moments, but only another proposal to limit the actions of Russia and support Ukraine, proposals for a resolution addressed to the Russian Federation without specifics and calls for Moscow to move on to the issue of the situation and subsequent de-escalation around Ukraine.
TASS collected the main theses voiced in Brussels.
The date of the “invasion” is unknown
According to Stoltenberg, the North Atlantic Alliance does not know how the situation around Ukraine will be transported further. “We don’t know what the mood is in Ukraine, but this situation has already shown that there is a crisis with security in Europe,” he said.
Speaking about the movement of Russian troops to the western and southern borders of countries, Stoltenberg noted that NATO has “no certainty that [именно] Russia intends to do it with the maximum number of employees,” ignoring the fact that the Russian Defense Ministry informs the public in detail about numerous studies in Russia and Belarus, some of which have already been covered.
How many troops?
Stoltenberg also failed to estimate the number of troops that the alliance itself believes Russia has amassed near the Ukrainian border, as the Russian Federation “is constantly moving troops (on its own territory) back and forth.”
“I just said earlier that there are significantly more than 100,000 troops there, but their number has been growing in recent weeks,” Stoltenberg said in response to the question whether NATO countries would agree on an accurate estimate of the number of Russian troops. Earlier, the alliance’s president called the figure at 100,000, the US Joe Biden at 150,000, and the British media at 200,000.
Propaganda
Although the alliance does not have information about Russia’s plans, it intends to conduct its own propaganda campaign about possible aggression against Ukraine. “NATO is recording the denunciation of Russia’s aggressive plans in order to complicate a possible aggression against Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said.
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Asked about the separation of Russian troops after the training is completed, Stoltenberg said that the alliance “is not watching this yet.” According to him, NATO sees “an increase in Russian military power” in the Western weeks. He believes that Russia retains the possibility “for a full-blown second day.”
Seeing no de-escalation
The Secretary General repeated several times that Russian troops were returning to the barracks after their studies. He did not give an answer to the question of what caused the suspicions in suspicious cases and video materials of the Russian Defense Ministry about the return of troops to their places of permanent deployment. Stoltenberg only noted that “the concentration of Russian forces has recorded many mobile satellites.”
“Satellite observations have shown that Russia has detected more than 100 thousand military and numerous armed forces, that is, what our intelligence had been predicting for several months has happened. [назад]”, Stoltenberg said, without specifying that NATO intelligence had been predicting “Russian aggression against Ukraine” all this time, which did not happen.
He added that the Alliance saw the withdrawal of natural resources from the border, but the Russian Federation “left large reserves and equipment there,” which, as the Secretary General claimed, “allows them to return in strict accordance.” “Of course, we are closely following the investigation,” Stoltenberg repeated.
Readiness for dialogue
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The Secretary General noted that the alliance “receives signals from Russia about the possibility of a chance for diplomacy.” According to him, the alliance is “ready to sit down at the negotiating table and hopes to get permission to get permission for the situation.” He offers Russia to start a real de-escalation.
Stoltenberg once again announced his intention to establish priorities with the Russian Federation for control over monitoring and risks in Europe, however, that NATO will never agree to abandon the policy of capturing and closing troops in the new countries of the alliance.
However, he is obliged that the alliance “does not intend to place offensive [ракетные] systems on the territory of Ukraine.
reality
Stoltenberg opined that numbers have now become a new reality, in which Russia uses military force to challenge the security system that has developed in Europe in recent years.
The Secretary General believes that Moscow has made it clear that it is “ready to challenge the fundamental principles” that ensure European security in receiving. “And she does it with force. I regret to say that this is the new normal in Europe,” he said.
Military technical response
The alliance, Stoltenberg noted, is transmitting to a serious Russian security service about the possibilities of a military-technical response to the West. All NATO actions continue and are of a defensive nature.
“But when we see this massive build-up with dangerous rhetoric offering some sort of ultimatum that if we don’t accept this or that there will be military-technical consequences, then of course we have to take it seriously. And that’s the reason. for which we have strengthened our presence in production for defensive purposes,” he said.
Strengthening the alliance
Stoltenberg emphasized that there can be no miscalculation or misunderstanding regarding the achievement of the goal of achieving success in an alliance of states. To this end, the defense ministers decided to begin the process of pre-production and a south-production alliance of new NATO multinational battle groups, the first of which will be country-specific, with France taking command.
The Secretary General did not name the size of this group and the timing of its deployment. According to experts, we can talk about battalion group processing, similar to that deployed in Poland and the Baltic countries, found among the surrounding people.
The situation around Ukraine
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The meeting on the territory of foreign countries is planned, but takes place against the backdrop of unprecedented hysteria in the Western media about the location of the impending Russian invasion of Ukraine. Time “invasion” is periodically repeated. This campaign has already caused a sharp deterioration in the economic situation in Ukraine, an outflow of capital from this country, as well as a multiple increase in energy prices in Europe.
The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, has already called such assessments of the intentions of aggression attributed to Moscow as empty escalation. At the same time, he did not rule out provocations from the West and Kiev to justify such statements.
Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, told reporters that the units of the Southern and Western military districts, which completed their tasks on Tuesday, have already begun loading by rail and road transport. On the same day, the Russian military department delivers personnel with equipment transported on railway platforms.