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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with the leaders of the US-led military alliance pose ...

As well as the extraordinary NATO summit taking place in Brussels there are meetings of EU leaders and the G-7. The governor attached stills and a video, which have not been verified, that he claimed showed buildings destroyed in the attack. "Today NATO leaders agreed to reset our deterrents and defense for the longer term to face a new security reality. Further details would be decided at the alliance's next summit in June, Stoltenberg said. At sea, we will have carrier strike groups, submarines and significant numbers of combat ships on a persistent basis," he added, with members also set to strengthen their cyber defenses. - As well as the extraordinary NATO summit taking place in Brussels there are meetings of EU leaders and the G-7.

NATO to send more battle groups to eastern Europe and will boost Ukraine's defence against potential chemical attack.

“It’s quite remarkable how things have been put together,” Szewczyk said. We have seen this use of a pretext to do the same themselves,” Stoltenberg said. “There is a risk that it will affect people living in NATO countries because we can see contamination and the spread of chemical agents into our countries,” Stoltenberg said. In his address to NATO, Zelenskyy accused Russia of having used phosphorous bombs on civilians. NATO to send more battle groups to eastern Europe and will boost Ukraine’s defence against potential chemical attack. NATO to send more battle groups to eastern Europe and will boost Ukraine’s defence against potential chemical attack.

US leader, speaking after Nato agreed to upgrade weapons supply to Ukraine, insists retaliation would be proportional.

This week it emerged that the White House had set up a special “Tiger Team” to work out how the US would respond if such an attack should take place. But there are limits; officials indicated they thought it unlikely any Nato country would want to provide tanks, for fear of Russian retaliation. The nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use.” We want him to remain uncertain … but we are clear there will be severe consequences,” they added. “We are remaining deliberately ambiguous. “We would respond if he uses it.

We condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the strongest possible terms. We call on President Putin to immediately stop this war and withdraw military forces ...

In line with our commitment in Article 3 of the Washington Treaty, we will further strengthen our individual and collective capacity to resist all forms of attack. We remain united and resolute in our determination to oppose Russia’s aggression, aid the government and the people of Ukraine, and defend the security of all Allies. The steps we are taking to ensure the security of our Alliance and of the Euro-Atlantic area will require adequate resourcing. We will now accelerate NATO’s transformation for a more dangerous strategic reality, including through the adoption of the next Strategic Concept in Madrid. In light of the gravest threat to Euro-Atlantic security in decades, we will also significantly strengthen our longer term deterrence and defence posture and will further develop the full range of ready forces and capabilities necessary to maintain credible deterrence and defence. We are increasing the resilience of our societies and our infrastructure to counter Russia’s malign influence. We are enhancing our cyber capabilities and defences, providing support to each other in the event of cyber-attacks. We reaffirm our unwavering support for the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders extending to its territorial waters. We call on all states, including the People’s Republic of China (PRC), to uphold the international order including the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity, as enshrined in the UN Charter, to abstain from supporting Russia’s war effort in any way, and to refrain from any action that helps Russia circumvent sanctions. We are also establishing four additional multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. We are taking all measures and decisions to ensure the security and defence of all Allies across all domains and with a 360-degree approach. We reaffirm our commitment to NATO’s Open Door Policy under Article 10 of the Washington Treaty. We support Ukraine’s efforts to achieve peace, and those undertaken diplomatically by Allies to weigh in on Russia to end the war and relieve human suffering. We call on Russia to engage constructively in credible negotiations with Ukraine to achieve concrete results, starting with a sustainable ceasefire and moving towards a complete withdrawal of its troops from Ukrainian territory.

West fears China could help support Russia with arms, trade lifelines and propaganda. BELGIUM-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA.

Today, in the 21st century, having military groups or bloc confrontation is not popular, and doesn’t have a future.” Dombrovskis argued it was important to discuss this with China — potentially during the EU-China summit on April 1 — in order to make sure “they are not supporting Russia’s aggressive war in Ukraine.” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters that he “strongly” appealed to Xi to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “I had a conversation with the Chinese president about this issue, and then together with the French president [Emmanuel Macron], in which we advocated very strongly that China condemn the invasion of Ukraine,” Scholz told reporters at a press conference following the G7 summit in Brussels. He added that he and Macron also “presented our position on this issue” to the Chinese leader. In their statement, the NATO leaders called on China “to uphold the international order including the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity, as enshrined in the UN Charter, to abstain from supporting Russia’s war effort in any way, and to refrain from any action that helps Russia circumvent sanctions.” On the one hand, Beijing wants to have an authoritarian partner to help it act as a counterweight to Washington. Chinese state media have blamed NATO for the war, Foreign Minister Wang Yi describes the friendship with Moscow as “rock solid” and European leaders have received what a senior EU official calls “very reliable evidence” that Beijing is considering arms sales to Russia. On the other hand, Biden’s veiled threat of economic fallout for China is a nightmare for a country that wants to keep selling its goods to rich Western markets. Biden added that China “understands that its economic future is much more closely tied to the West than it is to Russia.”

Amid concerns that Moscow may be preparing to use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, the alliance warned this “would be unacceptable and result in ...

It comes amid an international struggle to isolate Russia and stop wavering countries from helping Moscow to undermine the effect of sanctions. It wants to go further, against the eastern members of Nato. The Baltic states, Poland – that’s for sure,” Mr Zelenskiy said. “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed our security environment for the long term.