NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that Ukraine’s western backers were looking to provide Kyiv with more air defences to protect against Russia’s “indiscriminate” missile attacks across the country.
“We will address how to ramp up support for Ukraine and the top priority will be more air defence for Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said at the start of a meeting by Ukraine’s allies on arms supplies to Kyiv.
Russia launched waves of missile strikes on several regions of Ukraine for two days in a row, bombing multiple cities, including Kyiv, as reprisals for a blast at the weekend that damaged the only bridge between Moscow-annexed Crimea and mainland Russia.
On October 11, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy requested greater air defense capabilities from the G7 group, stating that once Ukraine had such systems, “the main part of Russia’s terror, rocket strikes, would cease to work.”
Representatives from more than 50 countries are also gathering on the sidelines of the NATO meeting in Brussels to discuss bolstering Ukraine’s air defense.
