By KYIV. Dec 1 (Interfax-Ukraine) – NATO’s collective determination to support Ukraine will be unshakable throughout the winter and until its victory over Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.
“And so the message coming out of our meeting is this: Our collective resolve to support Ukraine is and will continue to be ironclad, now, throughout the winter, and for as long as it takes for Ukraine to succeed. We will maintain and bolster our security, humanitarian, and economic support for Ukraine. NATO Allies and partners have provided $40 billion in arms to Ukraine; more is on the way,” Blinken said at the press conference in Bucharest on Wednesday.
He is confident that the President of the Russian Federation will not be able to split the unity of the coalition supporting Ukraine.
“We are clear-eyed about the difficult winter that lies ahead. We know President Putin’s playbook: freeze and starve Ukrainians, force them from their homes, drive up energy, food, and other household costs, not only across Europe but around the world, and then try to splinter our coalition. President Putin thinks that if he can just raise the costs high enough, the world will abandon Ukraine, that we’ll leave them to fend for themselves. His strategy has not and will not work. We will continue to prove him wrong. That’s what I heard loudly and clearly from every country here in Bucharest,” Blinken stressed.
