“The path to peace in Ukraine passes through the delivery of new weapons.” This was said by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg who will be received by Joe Biden at the White House in a few hours. “It may seem like a paradox, but the path to peace is through more weapons for Ukraine”
“The West must make China pay for helping Russia” in its aggression against Ukraine, Stoltenberg said. “Beijing can’t have it all. At some point, unless China changes course, allies will have to impose a cost. There should be consequences,” he said.
ANSA Agency From the peace summit yes to the integrity of Ukraine, but 12 do not sign – News – Ansa.it India, Mexico and Saudi Arabia march away. Meloni: ‘Peace yes. not surrendered’ (ANSA) Stoltenberg: ‘NATO discusses the deployment of more nuclear weapons’
NATO is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons in the face of growing threats from Russia and China. This was stated by the Telegraph, citing an interview given to the British newspaper by the secretary general of the North Atlantic Alliance Jens Stoltenberg, according to whom NATO must show the world its arsenal to send a direct message to its enemies.
Statements that immediately ended up in Moscow’s sights: “Another escalation of tension”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov defined them. “What Stoltenberg said clearly does not agree with the same statement yesterday (at the Lucerne conference), which not everyone signed and which, if I’m not mistaken, also speaks of the inadmissibility of such rhetoric,” said Peskov, quoted by Ria Novosti agency.
For his part, the head of the Russian external intelligence service, Serghei Naryshkin, said that Stoltenberg wants to “frighten” Moscow, and called for calm. At the same time the Kremlin rejected the results of the peace conference on Ukraine which took place in Switzerland: “they are close to zero”, commented Peskov.
The head of the Alliance had revealed to the Telegraph that there had been live consultations between NATO members on the withdrawal of missiles from depots and their placing on stand-by. “I won’t go into operational details about how many nuclear warheads should be operational and which should be stored, but we need to consult on these issues: this is exactly what we are doing,” Stoltenberg told the British newspaper.
In the interview, Stoltenberg issued a stark warning about the threat from China, said he expected a Labor government in the UK to be a staunch Nato ally and defended new plans to deliver weapons to Ukraine to challenge Donald Trump . The Alliance’s secretary general stressed that nuclear transparency must be the cornerstone of NATO’s strategy to prepare the North Atlantic bloc for what he described as a more dangerous world. “Transparency helps communicate the direct message that we are obviously a nuclear alliance – said Stoltenberg -. NATO’s goal is a world without nuclear weapons but as long as such weapons exist we will remain a nuclear alliance, because a world in which Russia, China and North Korea have atomic weapons and NATO does not, it is a more dangerous world.”
The Secretary General of the Alliance then warned that China in particular is investing massively in modern weapons, including its atomic arsenal: Beijing would like to possess 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030. “And this means that in the not too distant future NATO may have to face something it has never faced before, namely two potential nuclear-powered adversaries: China and Russia. Of course this has consequences,” Stoltenberg said, adding that the United States and its European allies are currently modernizing their atomic arsenals.
Head of the Russian 007: ‘Harder peace conditions for Kiev in the future’
If Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “peace proposal” to Ukraine is rejected, Kiev will face “more difficult and harsher” conditions in the future to bring the hostilities to an end. The head of the Russian external intelligence service, Serghei Naryshkin, said this in an interview with Tass.
ANSA Agency Putin in North Korea on 18 and 19 June – Europe – Ansa.it Kremlin announcement, the Russian president will go to Vietnam immediately afterwards (ANSA) “The next conditions under which peace can be achieved and some kind of peace agreement can be signed will be more difficult and harsher for Ukraine,” Naryshkin responded to a question on the topic.
Last week Putin set as conditions for a ceasefire and the start of negotiations the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the four regions (Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson) partially controlled by Russian troops and Kiev’s official commitment not to join NATO. According to the Russian president, the negotiations should also lead to the cancellation of all Western sanctions against Russia.
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