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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/ ... kraine-aid

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has accused Russia of “trying to use winter as a weapon of war” as he called on member states to pledge more aid for Ukraine amid Moscow’s relentless attacks on the country’s power infrastructure.

They wouldnt just be "trying". Russia is well known to fight in winter. Since centuries.

Also Stoltenberg acts as if this was some sort of game. Thousands of soldiers have died. Thousands of soldiers have been crippled for life. Every day soldiers get killed or crippled for life. This is as serious as it gets.


In a statement on Tuesday, NATO ministers meeting in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, condemned Russia’s “persistent and unconscionable attacks on Ukrainian civilian and energy infrastructure” and confirmed a 2008 decision that Ukraine will eventually join the alliance.

“NATO’s door is open,” Stoltenberg said, as allies promised more arms for Kyiv and equipment to help restore power and heat.

“Russia does not have a veto” on countries joining, Stoltenberg said.

Ukraine has already applied a while ago, and got instantly denied.


Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called for an immediate supply of weapons, especially advanced air defence systems, to come “faster, faster, faster” as he joined the two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers.

“When we have transformers and generators, we can restore our system, our energy grid, and provide people with decent living conditions,” Kuleba said.

I'd rather suspect more target practice for the russians.


He added that the only way to get the right terms for a negotiation to begin would be for Ukraine to advance on the battlefield.

Good one, but Zelensky had made that joke already in April.


“It’s surprising that the alliance led by the US has not done more so far in terms of anti-drone and anti-missile defences,” Hunter told Al Jazeera from Washington, DC.

Its not surprising at all. They sent all they could. Heck Germany sent Ukraine a brand new air defense system they themselves dont have yet.

NATO simply sucks at air defense. Ukraines own outdated soviet time defense system is already better than anything NATO can offer. Apparently cant stop current russian rockets with reasonable rates of success though.


Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons, reporting from Bucharest, said that while Stoltenberg is promising a wide range of measures to support Ukraine, this is still “an alliance of 30 states in which consensus is the rule.

Well, at least the article cant help to mention that Stoltenberg actually has nothing to decide at all. Even if the rest of the article, as usual for the corporate press, pretends otherwise.


“The reason Russia is continuing these war crimes is because it is losing ground,” a French official said, referring to the attacks on civilian infrastructure.

The reason the article has to clarify that the "war crime" is refering to the destruction of civil infrastructure is because thats not a war crime.

Civilian infrastructure is a valid military target because it of course also helps the military.

Thats why its common to destroy civilian infrastructure. For example the USA destroyed the iraqi infrastructure at the start of the war.

Quite on the contrary it was very surprising that Russia didnt do this for over half a year into the war. And they only changed this attitude after the attack on the crimean bridge.
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What Putin is doing is outside of the accepted rules of warfare, attempting to cut off gas, electricity and water to towns an citys ( the civilian population ) is a despicable aim.

These actions do not hit or harm the Ukrainian fighting soldiers on the Eastern and Southern fronts, insted they hurt the elderly, the sick, the vulnerable, children and families, innocent people.

People cannot cook hot food, properly feed themselves or keep warm, they are denied basic necessaties of life such as water, but of course its all very typical of Putin, he's the reincarnation of an earlier mad man from Austria.

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