DAILY ON DEFENSE: • NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg: 'We will not back down' • Zelensky: 'They are capable of nothing but devastation' • John Kirby: 'You just can't bring the Ukrainian people to their knees'
STOLTENBERG: ‘WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN’: In remarks ahead of today’s meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Bucharest, Romania, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that despite the economic hardships the war in Ukraine is imposing on Europe, the West must remain united in supporting Ukraine or risk paying a higher price in the future.
“So our message from Bucharest is that NATO will continue to stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes,” he said. “We will not back down.” “Ukraine will never be a place for devastation,” Zelensky vowed. “We will do everything to restore every object, every house, every enterprise destroyed by the occupiers.”
“It's absolutely despicable what [Putin] is doing in these last few weeks. … These targets are largely civilian, and it's designed for one reason. And that's to try to bring the Ukrainian people to their knees because he can't bring the Ukrainian armed forces to its knees,” Kirby said. “It's hard to believe … Putin would [not] have learned a while ago that you just can't bring the Ukrainian people to their knees.
“China is not going to be a better military than the United States military is, but they're going to try but they're not going to get there,” Milley said at a Pentagon news conference two weeks ago. “The United States military is No. 1 now, and we are going to be No. 1 five years from now — 2027 is not going to be the date that China becomes No. 1. And we're going to stay No. 1 the entire time. And as long as we remain No.
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11 a.m. Bucharest, Romania — Press conference by Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the end of Day One of the meeting of NATO foreign ministers https://www.nato.int
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