NATO Secretary General names condition for Zelenskyy's talks with Putin
Photo: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (Vitalii Nosach RBC-Ukraine)
NATO's strategy is to provide military assistance to Ukraine. At some point, Kyiv will be able to start negotiations with Russia on the terms of force, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says.
“We massively support Ukraine with military aid to make sure that they are in a position to fight back,” he says.
According to him, NATO will not allow Putin to have his way in Ukraine.
“At the moment, we see that on the eastern line, the Russians are making small advances, but at a considerable cost. And I'm every day impressed by Ukraine's ingenuity, its creativity, its ability to come up with new ideas, new solutions, including new defense solutions, including what they are doing with drones and all the rest,” Rutte says.
The NATO Secretary General said that the United States and other countries provide significant assistance to Ukraine.
“What we have to do is to make sure that Ukraine can continue doing this (resist aggression - ed.),” he says.
Rutte is confident that Putin will not get his way. “If ever one day, [President] Zelenskyy and his team will decide to discuss with Russia how to end this, that he will do this from a position of strength, from a position of strength, so that he can dominate those talks,” the NATO Secretary General adds.
According to a poll conducted by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Razumkov Center, in August 2024, after 2.5 years of full-scale aggression, 54% of Ukrainians believe that in the event of an even longer war with Russia, Ukraine will be able to withstand it.
At the same time, the majority of Ukrainians (59.5%) are convinced that regardless of the outcome of the current war with Russia, Russia will attack Ukraine again in the future.
According to a survey conducted by the Razumkov Center, in June 2024, 80% of respondents believed in Ukraine's victory in the war, while 12% did not.
