Meanwhile, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has stressed that any use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine will “change the nature of the conflict” and “would have serious consequences”, although he has avoided detailing what those consequences would be.
The advancing ukrainian troops in the south of the country has forced the pro-Russian authorities to evacuate civilians from the annexed Kherson regionwhile Russia has continued to attack various provinces with missiles and unmanned devices, to which NATO has promised kyiv “hundreds” of anti-drone jammers. Meanwhile, the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberghas underlined that any use of nuclear weapons in ukraine will be to “change the nature of the conflict” and “would have serious consequences“, although he has avoided detailing what those consequences would be.
In this context, in Kherson, “every day, the cities of the region are subjected to missile attacks, which cause serious damage, first of all, to the inhabitants,” said the interim pro-Russian governor, Vladimir Saldo, who has explained that he has decided to “organize the possibility for families to travel to other regions of Russia”.
Balance has turned to the authorities in Moscow to ask for “help, to organize such work”, after which the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Marat Jusnulin, has promised the evacuees free housing.
In parallel, the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, has told the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which has adopted a resolution recognizing Russia as a terrorist state, that Ukraine only has 10% of its anti-aircraft needs covered. NATO has reacted, and has promised to hand over to Ukraine “Hundreds” of jammers to neutralize Iranian and Russian dronesaccording to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who also said that Spain announced that it would provide four HAWK missile launchers to Ukraine.
“Serious consequences”, in case of use of nuclear weapons
Stoltenberg himself has avoided detailing what would be NATO’s response to a russian nuclear attackalthough he has stressed that any use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine will “change the nature of the conflict” and “would have serious consequences.”
“This is something that Russia knows, it has been communicated to it in different ways. We are not going to say exactly how we will respond, but it will fundamentally change the nature of the conflict,” the NATO political chief warned at a press conference after the meeting. of allied defense ministers. “We take these threats seriously. We remain vigilant and will not be intimidated,” he stressed.
On the type of reaction that NATO would give, Stoltenberg has indicated that the Alliance’s nuclear weapons are used in very specific scenarios: “The basis of NATO’s nuclear deterrence is to preserve peace, and avoid aggression and actions against allies. Circumstances in which NATO would use nuclear weapons are extremely remote,” he said.
Along these lines, the defense ministers of fourteen European NATO countries, in addition to Finland, have signed a letter of intent for the development of a “European Sky Shield Initiative”; it is a German-led project to protect Europe from missile attacks.
The fourteen NATO allies they have formed are Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Romania, while Finland, a country in the process of joining the Atlantic Alliance, has also joined.
Source: Eitb
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