NATO urged to give Ukraine everything it needs to win the war: “Vladimir Putin is not planning peace”

Head of nato Jens Stoltenberg requested this Saturday, in the Munich Security Conference”give Ukraine what it needs to win” the war started after the invasion of this country by Russia almost a year ago.

“We must give Ukraine what it needs to win and establish itself as a sovereign and independent nation in Europe,” he will say at the meeting of world leaders, according to excerpts of his speech seen speak AFP.

Russian President Vladimir “Putin is not planning peace, he is planning more war (…)”, he declared. There I WILL TAKE he believes that Russia is preparing a new major offensive.

According Stoltenberg there is no indication that (Putin) changed his ambitions”, mobilizing “hundreds of thousands of troops” and seizing “more weapons from authoritarian countries like Iran and North Korea.

The day before, the French President, Emmanuel Macron and the head of the German government, Olaf Scholzhad argued that Western allies should help more Kyivespecially at the military level.

Stoltenberg, urged Western countries to “don’t make the same mistake with chinathan with Russia, and avoid energy dependence on the Asian giant.

“We must not make the same mistake with China and other authoritarian regimes” as with Russia, warned Stoltenberg before the Munich Security Conference.

“We must not become too dependent on the products and raw materials that we import,” he said.

“The war in Ukraine has revealed the danger of excessive confidence in authoritarian regimes”, underlined the head of the organization. I WILL TAKE who will step down at the end of this year.

“Not so long ago, many claimed that Russian imports were purely an economic issue. It is not like that. It’s a political question,” he said.

According to him, “it’s about our security. Because Europe’s dependence on Russian energy has made us vulnerable.”

Stoltenberg also stressed the need “to avoid exporting key technologies that could be used against us (the West) and to protect our critical infrastructure.”

“Of course, we must continue to trade (…) with China. But our economic interests cannot take precedence over our (in terms of) security interests”, he declared, judging that “it is normal that we protect ourselves”.

“But in doing so, we must remember that trade between friends and allies makes us stronger and more resilient. We must not create new barriers between free and open economies,” Stoltenberg said.

“The most important lesson of the war in Ukraine is that North America and Europe must stick together,” he said.

More than 150 government officials attend this annual conference devoted to international security issues, including Chinese diplomat Wang Yi, visiting Moscow after a European tour.