NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that NATO has indications that Iran is supplying drones that Russia is using to attack Ukraine, and warned that this is a “clear violation” of UN Security Council resolutions, EFE reports, citing Agerpres.
“Everything indicates that Iran is supplying Russia with drones, and we ask all countries, including Iran, not to support Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said at a press conference with Sweden’s new prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, who was during a visit to NATO headquarters.
Stoltenberg urged “Iran not to provide drones or missiles” and insisted that “the provision of missiles would be a clear violation of UN resolutions.”
The Norwegian politician warned that NATO is “closely monitoring everything that Iran does with regard to providing assistance to Russia,” and twice refused to go into detail about the evidence gathered by intelligence services about Tehran sending drones or missiles to Moscow.
“This is a war that clearly violates international law”
According to the NATO Secretary General, the “terrible attacks” that Russia is carrying out against all objects in Ukraine, especially civilian ones, “only emphasize the urgency of increasing support for Ukraine.”
“We are talking about an aggressive war, a war that clearly violates international law, we are talking about an attack on an independent and sovereign country in Europe,” insisted Stoltenberg, who added that for these reasons NATO allies and their partners provided “an unprecedented level of assistance to Ukraine , and we will go even further.”
In this regard, Stoltenberg recalled that last week at a meeting of NATO defense ministers, many allies – including Germany, the USA, the Netherlands, France and Spain – announced that they would send new air defense systems to Ukraine.
“There are countries that provide more numerous and more advanced air defense systems,” the NATO Secretary General emphasized.
NATO continues to support Ukraine
Finally, Stoltenberg reiterated the fact that the world was faced with a war launched in February by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which had been “accumulating disappointment” ever since and which was a “big mistake”.
“President Putin made a big mistake by invading Ukraine, was forced to withdraw from the northern territories near Kyiv, then launched an offensive in Donbas, which was crippled by brave Ukrainian forces. And now Ukraine is fully capable of restoring the land and liberating Ukrainian land, and we support it,” the NATO Secretary General concluded.
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