Heads of states and governments 30 NATO countries at the Summit in Brussels did not support the proposal of Poland to send peacekeepers to Western Ukraine, but they promised to continue to supply the Kiev of weapons and protective equipment, and also decided to strengthen their own defense in the long term, to increase the number of their troops in borders of Russia. This is stated in the statement of the statement general on Thursday on Thursday, and this was announced at a press conference by the Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg. The leaders of the Alliance approved a decision on the placement of four more multi-drug combat groups at the borders of Russia. The long-term strengthening of the Defense of the Alliance and the decision to implement them to implement the increase in defense expenditures should be prepared and adopted at NATO summit in June in Madrid. Reports about it TASS.
NATO leaders once again called for Russia to immediately terminate hostilities in Ukraine and accused the Russian army in blows in civil infrastructure. Stoltenberg also made a special emphasis on the fact that the Alliance wants to prevent the threats of possible use by Russia in Ukraine of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. However, he did not mention the US biologic sites found in Ukraine, which, according to the Ministry of Defense of Russia, were engaged in studies of dangerous pathogens.
Another result of the summit was the decision to extend the powers of Stoltenberg himself for the year.