By BUCHAREST. Nov 29 (Interfax-Ukraine) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warns Iran, as well as other countries, should not provide assistance to Russia in its aggressive war against Ukraine.
He said this in Bucharest on Tuesday before the start of the meeting of foreign ministers of NATO member countries. “We know that Russia is running low on ammunition. That’s also the reason why they have reached out to, for instance, Iran, to try to get more. We are saying very clearly that no country should support Russia’s illegal war. And therefore, Iran and no other country should provide Russia with missiles, drones or anything else that can help them to continue this brutal war of aggression against Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said.
The NATO Secretary General suggested that there is a possibility that Russia will continue to launch missile strikes on civilian critical infrastructure, “because President Putin is failing.” “Russia is actually failing on the battlefield. In response to that, they are now attacking civilian targets, cities, because they’re not able to win territory and to and to avoid Ukraine slowly liberating more and more territory. So yes, we can expect more attacks. I think no one can say exactly how many, but President Putin and Russia has demonstrated a willingness to inflict suffering and to a level of brutality that we haven’t seen in Europe since the Second World War,” he said.
