{"id":277161,"date":"2023-12-04T08:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T08:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=277161"},"modified":"2023-12-06T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T09:17:00","slug":"nato-should-be-ready-for-bad-news-from-ukraine-stoltenberg-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=277161","title":{"rendered":"NATO should be ready for \u2018bad news\u2019 from Ukraine, Stoltenberg warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bjarke Smith-Meyer \u2013 Politico Dec 3, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned that the Western military alliance should be ready for bad news from the Ukrainian front as Kyiv continues to defend against Russia&#8217;s all-out invasion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wars develop in phases,&#8221; Stoltenberg said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ardmediathek.de\/video\/tagesschau24\/exlusiv-interview-mit-nato-generalsekretaer-stoltenberg-nach-dem-grossangriff-russlands-ist-die-lage-fuer-die-ukraine-kritisch\/tagesschau24\/Y3JpZDovL3RhZ2Vzc2NoYXUuZGUvYzUwM2RlZWYtNjNkOS00ZmI5LWJlN%20\">interview<\/a> Saturday with German broadcaster ARD. &#8220;We have to support Ukraine in both good and bad times,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should also be prepared for bad news,\u201d Stoltenberg added, without being more specific.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come as Western allies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eus-next-ukraine-ammo-and-cash-support-plans-stalling\/\">debate over ammunition and financial aid<\/a> for Ukraine, and as Moscow boosts its troop levels. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/172453\">decree<\/a> on Friday to increase the number of soldiers by some 170,000 to a total of 1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The front lines have moved little in recent months despite Kyiv\u2019s counteroffensive during the summer. But the Ukrainians have used cruise missiles to push back the Russian fleet in the Black Sea and have caused damage deep in Russian territory<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are big victories even though they haven\u2019t been able to move the front line,\u201d Stoltenberg said in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Stoltenberg called on NATO\u2019s members to ramp up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/brussels-playbook\/eus-ukraine-ammo-targets-collide-with-reality\/\">production of ammunition,<\/a> bemoaning the fragmented state of Europe\u2019s defense industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/latvia-next-nato-boss-should-come-from-a-country-high-defense-budget-krisjanis-karins\/\">work as closely together<\/a> as we should,\u201d he said, urging governments to look beyond their national interests and see the big picture.<\/p>\n<p>A victory for Putin would not only be a tragedy for Ukraine but it would also present <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/brussels-playbook\/nato-meets-as-support-for-ukraine-wavers\/\">a danger for the rest of the allies<\/a>, Stoltenberg said. \u201cThe more we support the Ukraine, the faster the war will end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/nato-boss-jens-stoltenberg-warns-of-bad-news-from-ukraine\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg didn\u2019t specify exactly what the \u201cbad news\u201d was, we can guess. Stoltenberg is likely to acknowledge what visitors to this website were reading here months ago, that Ukraine\u2019s counter-offensive has failed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277162,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277161\/revisions\/277162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}