Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg disclosed that NATO was meeting in Madrid “in the midst of the most serious security crisis we have faced since the Second World War.”
The war in Ukraine has already triggered an escalation in NATO’s forces in eastern Europe and allies are expected to agree to increase the rapid reaction force nearly eightfold, from 40,000 to 300,000 troops by next year.
NATO allies will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons in its war against Russia for as long as necessary, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said as he arrived for the second day of a NATO summit in Madrid.
“It is good that the countries that are gathered here but many others, too, make their contributions so Ukraine can defend itself by providing financial means, humanitarian aid but also by providing the weapons that Ukraine urgently needs,” he told reporters.
“The message is: We will continue to do so and to do this intensively for as long as it is necessary to enable Ukraine to defend itself,” he added.
