Ahead of a trio of summits in Brussels bringing together NATO, G-7 and EU leaders, NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg said any chemical attack by Russia on Ukraine would change the course of the war but didn't say whether NATO would take military action.
“We need to do more, and therefore we need to invest more. There is a new sense of urgency and I expect that the leaders will agree to accelerate the investments in defense,” said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg before chairing the security alliance’s summit.
“To do so from one day to the next would mean plunging our country and all of Europe into recession,” Scholz said Wednesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is expected to address the NATO summit by video, said late Wednesday that he wants the alliance to “declare that it will fully assist Ukraine to win this war” by supplying any weapons necessary.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in a CNN interview this week said that Russia could consider using its nuclear weapons if it felt there was “an existential threat for our country.” Sullivan said the United States was looking for ways to “surge” LNG supplies to Europe to help make up for supply disruptions.
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