Nato chief: west must brace to support Ukraine for a long war
by Dan Sabbagh in Kyiv from World news | The Guardian on (#6A2NE)
Jens Stoltenberg, who steps down later this year, says Putin is engaged in a war of attrition
Vladimir Putin has no immediate plans for peace in Ukraine and so the west needs to brace itself to supply lethal aid to Kyiv for a long time to come, Nato's secretary general has warned in an interview with the Guardian.
Jens Stoltenberg said the Russian president was engaged in a war of attrition", and said he wanted Nato members to agree that spending 2% of GDP on defence as a minimum at the alliance's next summit, in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
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