The I’LL TAKE and Ukraine They will hold a meeting next Tuesday at the headquarters of the Atlantic Alliance to address the situation in the country invaded by Russia after Russian forces attacked it for the first time with an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile, allied sources reported this Friday.
“At the request of Ukraine, NATO will host a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council at NATO headquarters on Tuesday, November 26,” Alliance sources told EFE.
The meeting will be held at the ambassador level, they confirmed.
The NATO-Ukraine Council constitutes a forum for consultation between the allies and Ukraine on security issues of common interest, “including Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine,” they noted.
On the other hand, NATO stated this Friday that the launch of the first experimental ballistic missile intermediate range by Russia against Ukraine will not deter the allies in their efforts to continue supporting kyiv.
“The deployment of this capability will not change the course of the conflict nor will it dissuade NATO Allies from supporting Ukraine,” Alliance spokesperson Farah Dakhlallah told EFE.
The spokesperson noted that Russia launched on Thursday “an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile against Ukraine”, what he considered “one more example of Russia’s attacks against Ukrainian cities.”
“Russia intends to terrorize the civilian population of Ukraine and intimidate those who support Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s illegal and unprovoked aggression,” he concluded.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putinconfirmed this Thursday the Russian attack on Ukraine with a hypersonic ballistic missile without a nuclear charge and affirmed that Moscow reserves the right to use its arsenal against military installations of countries that allow kyiv to use its missiles to hit Russian territory.
He assured that Russia used this capability in response to Ukraine’s use of American and British long-range weapons against targets on Russian territory as part of its defense strategy against Russian attacks.
Putin, who approved this week the new Russian nuclear doctrine – which allows responses with atomic weapons in the event of attacks with conventional weapons -, warned at the time that the use of long-range Western weapons against Russian territory would mean that NATO is in fight with Russia.
