Both the Group of Seven (G7) and NATO vowed on Tuesday to continue supporting Ukraine in the wake of a Russian missile barrage across Ukraine that marked an escalation in the war.
Russian missile and drone strikes continued across Ukraine on Tuesday, but they were not as intense as Monday’s strikes. According to Ukrainian officials, the Russian strikes have killed 19 people.
The leaders of the G7 nations convened a virtual meeting and issued a statement that said they would support Ukraine for the long term. “We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military, diplomatic and legal support and will stand firmly with Ukraine for as long as it takes,” the G7 leaders said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attended the G7 meeting and asked for the nations to provide an “air shield” by supplying more military aid. “I am asking you to strengthen the overall effort to help financially with the creation of an air shield for Ukraine. Millions of people will be grateful to the Group of Seven for such assistance,” Zelensky said.
On Monday, President Biden told Zelensky in a call that the US would provide Ukraine with advanced air defense systems. The following day, the White House said the US would expedite the delivery of National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS).
Over in Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the military alliance will agree to send more weapons to Ukraine at a meeting of NATO ministers that will start on Wednesday. “We will step up and sustain our support for Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said while giving a preview of the upcoming meeting.
NATO countries have been working to step up weapons production as their stockpiles have been depleted by sending arms to Ukraine. “So we can produce more, both to replenish stocks, but also to continue to support Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said.
The NATO leader said that Ukraine must win the war because a Russian victory would be a defeat for the Western military alliance. “It is important for all of us, that Ukraine wins the battle, the war against the invading Russian forces. Because if Putin wins, that is not only a big defeat for Ukrainians, but it will be a defeat and dangerous for all of us,” he said.
Yep we are supporting Ukraine and we get to try out all our latest whizzbang technology against actual Russian stuff. Invaluable opportunity. Shame about the few dozen that died in these attacks but I am convinced far more Ukrainians are being murdered in simpler cheaper ways by the undisciplined hoard that has invaded.
I second this.
What ever the Russians are doing pales into insignificance compared to the war crimes of the American military in the past 70 years ,
The Ukrainians reported 19 people died. Why would the Ukrainians not report all casualties?
Convenient time frame to allow you to omit any WWII Russian war crimes.
I thought the “hoard” had deserted.
Hoards are big, you can go to deepstate ukraine to get battlefield updates. They are pushing them out but they have a long way to go.
The G7 are a runaway train heading for dead mans curve!
These countries have hitched their wagons to a senile angry Joey Biden and his NEOCON clown show.
Yes, but Jens is right about it being the end of NATO/EU, G7.
With all the demonstrations picking up steam, do they really mean it? The German government will be gone by X-mas, I think. The AfD, right of center but NOT extreme, are gaining, the one party SPD/CDU center are losing because they serve the US as do the Greens and not the German people. The Greens are a puzzle they flipped to the extreme right, they must have been paid for it. The neo- liberal FDP is about to croak.
Two women, Alice Weidel from the AfD, and Sarah Wagenknecht from the Linke are two promising figures, great candidates to replace Scholz and idiotic Baerbeck and the other women like the von der Leyen and others.
The Scholz gang should be kicked out within the next few weeks. Hopefully.
One can wish. Times like these you miss the adults, like Merkel, who knew that one does in fact negotiate with one’s adversaries and not one’s allies. In addition, with Merkel, the Russians had an ear that wasn’t inclined to suck up to the occupant of the WH.
The Scholz gang should be removed from power, then locked in one of the many ugly government buildings with no heat, no lights and nothing to eat except bugs.
In other words, they should suffer the fate they would have in store for the rest of us.
I don’t think Biden is running the show. Yeah the plutocrats picked him because they were simpatico, but I’m reasonably sure he has handlers. The MIC/CIA?
You’d think whoever that might be, might have thought of the ramifications of picking someone so advanced in age. If we are going to pretend the job means something there really should be age restrictions. To deny any human being isn’t into decline at age 80 is just not being realistic. It’s just of matter of how much. I’m “only” 67 and me and the car keys have been playing ‘hide and go seek’ for quite some time now. It happens to everyone.
Maybe the Bush remnants, the Kagan/ Nuland and other PNAC clan members are running the show. Biden was a big supporter of the Iraq war which is the gift the Bush PNAC people left behind. PNAC people are neocon Russophobes. Fiona Hill, is she still around?
Wolfowitz doctrine. Condi is still around. Bolton.
And as far as we can tell, these people learned nothing, still as narrowminded and ignorant as ever. Biden, we have yet to hear a word of wisdom grown over years of life in politics. No coherent policies from this man or even sentences.
NATO needs to be defeated , ho hang on a minute NATO was defeated in Afghanistan , when push comes to shove most NATO countries will not support NATO in a war with Russia , and why would they considering they will be first to be hit by Russia.
NATO was created after WWII as a bloc against the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union fell in 1991.
Then why the #&%* is NATO still around??? Aren’t there enough multinational organizations in existence?
They need NATO to get their hands on the Russian resources after that they will flush NATO down the toilet.
But it looks like NATO is falling apart too early.
Without energy the Germans can’t produce weapons for Zelensky.
Nicely phrased…
You are so nice. I can let off some steam here to keep my sanity.
Same here, and glad I migrated here. A much more polite place than the den of angry democrats I left behind.
Began with Bill Clinton. Brought to this point by Joe the Schmo Biden. I would really like to take those aviator glasses off his face and stomp on them.
If you can do that, take some photos for us so we can all share… You keep spelling his name wrong: BYE-DONE!
Poor defenseless USA needs an enemy. Russia is there, so why not use it, sanction and punish it and get your bullying “friends” to be part of your team? NATO tried it out in 1999 and got a very good start in destroying Serbia. Just before the demos against NATO “Fifty years is enough”.
Like they would have made a different decision had Russia not.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg seems perfect for the job. When do we get to vote for him again? … Wait. We don’t get to vote for him at all? … But I heard everyone tell me to vote? … You’re asking why? … Well, I owe a lot of money and want the world to end before my payments are due. … I don’t have to? It’s taken care of? Wow. Thanks for saving my time. (s)
I wish that was sarcasm.
“The NATO leader said that Ukraine must win the war because a Russian victory would be a defeat for the Western military alliance. “It is important for all of us, that Ukraine wins the battle, the war against the invading Russian forces. Because if Putin wins, that is not only a big defeat for Ukrainians, but it will be a defeat and dangerous for all of us,” he said.”
So, the Norwegian apparat is admitting that this is actually a war between NATO and Russia, then? With Ukraine serving as cannon fodder? I know that most here already knew this, but NATO is usually not so clear. Macron and Scholzi signed up for this too, I guess?
We should be honest and admit the USA controlled the EU with help from the UK before Brexit and of course NATO. Germany, to this day is still an occupied country with some 33 000 American troops within Germany. The USA will use these troops against the German people if the German people rebel and cause trouble for the American interests. They already declared war on Germany, that is what the pipeline sabotage is all about. Germany must be destroyed, two WW did not finish the job, this time it may be the last chance.
So is Japan, Okinawa…………
The leaders of the G-7 had to copy the stupidity of an Annalena Bearbock, the most stupid uneducated immature secretary of foreign affairs Germany ever had. That alone tells us how degenerated the NATO governments are, a big POS compare that with the quality of the Russian, Chinese, and Indian leadership. Biden/Blinken, UK Truzz/Cleverly, Germany Scholz/Baerbock. Russia has Putin/Lavrov an experienced and educated team with diplomatic skills and manners, real statesmen. China and India too have statesmen governing the nations and they are big nations, each more than one billion people. We have knuckleheads and an incoherent senile president.
If only Russia wins and NATO is abandoned as it should have been, like the Warsaw Pact at the end of the Cold War. There could even be peace!!what a lot we could all save! We could trade and share resources! Fancy Stoltenberg giving us all this choice.
Selling arms is the real goal.
That older arms can be disposed of by sending them off to Ukraine is just a bonus.
Bleeding Russia is another bonus.
Our commitment to sell arms was the starting point, and Ukraine is the excuse. We’d find another one (Abraham Accords, Israel’s technical edge, arming up Japan and Taiwan, subs to Australia, whatever). It is nice to find such a big one, that comes with an extra hundred billion in high profit sales.
“Bleeding Russia *and the American taxpayers* is another bonus. “
By now Stoltenberg should get it into his knucklehead, that the USA/NATO the biggest military alliance is the biggest threat to our planet. That is why Russia must win. People like Biden and Stoltenberg are the curse of the planet and people. Russians are fighting and dying for all of us. The real war criminals are sitting in D.C, London and Berlin and Paris. The syndicate of war criminals.
Nice to watch how the Biden people kill NATO. Germany is a good start, they are almost done with Germany.
Shorter Stoltenberg : NATO is at war with Russia and must win.
Zelansky is like a giant tick.
Ukraine is a economic black hole.
Both are enabled by the US and Eurocrat political class that are profiting from this. Both are facilitated by the political classes mouthpieces:the mainstream media who are doing quite well also.