NATO’s leader, Jens Stoltenberg, has said that he fully supports Ukraine’s recent attack in Russia’s Kursk area. He talked to the German newspaper Die Welt about it. Stoltenberg stressed that Ukraine has every right to protect itself, even if that means going into Russian territory. International law says that what Ukraine is doing is right.
The attack began on August 6 and caught Russia off guard. More than 1,200 square kilometres of land, including dozens of towns, were taken over by Ukrainian troops. Stoltenberg said that international law allows Russia to attack military targets in Kursk, which made Ukraine’s right to strike even stronger.
Stoltenberg said something interesting: Ukraine did not plan this attack with NATO. It was a surprise to everyone, even Kyiv’s friends. He did say again, though, that NATO supported Ukraine’s right to self-defence and made it clear that the union had nothing to do with the operation.
Despite recent complaints, Germany, which is a close friend of Ukraine, has promised to keep helping. People are angry at Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government because they want to cut help to Ukraine in next year’s budget. Germany is still Ukraine’s biggest defence donor in Europe and its second-biggest giver in the world.
Scholz promised that Germany would keep giving Ukraine’s military the tools it needs, even though they would still be outnumbered and outgunned.
Even though the Kursk assault was a big step, it hasn’t made a big difference on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. Russian troops have taken over three towns in the past few days, showing that they are still making small wins. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has said that things are “extremely difficult” for his men near Pokrovsk, a key area in the Donetsk region where Russian troops are closing in.
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