On Tuesday, Ukraine pressed NATO nations to speed up arms shipments and help restore power grids destroyed by Russian bombing to help Ukrainians weather the boreal winter. During a NATO ministerial meeting in Romania, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba asked that supplies, especially for air defense, come “más rápido, más rápido, más rápido”, reports AFP.

The brutal Russian missile bombardment dramatically destroyed Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and left millions of people in the dark. Kuleba said that “when we have transformers and generators, we will be able to restore our system (…) When we have air defense systems, we will be able to protect the infrastructure from the next wave of Russian missiles.” According to the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, the country desperately needs Patriot and Transformer missiles.

It was called dramatic for additional help. This was not known until the head of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, warned that Russia seeks to use winter as a “weapon of war” against Ukraine. Opening the meeting in Bucharest, Stoltenberg said “the message from all of us will be that we must do more” to help Ukraine rebuild its gas and electricity infrastructure, as well as provide air defenses to help the country better defend itself. The head of NATO said that he expects Russia to carry out new attacks on the Ukrainian power grid, and warned that Europe should “be ready for new refugees.”

“Russia is actually fracasando en el campo de batalla. En respuesta a eso, ahora está cácando objetivos civiles (…) porque no puede ganar teritorij,” Stoltenberg said at the opening of the meeting of the transatlantic alliance. Los ataques a la infrastructura civil y energetica “obviamente está aimed at trying to freeze the Ukrainians until they comply,” said British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley, who added without embargo: “I don’t believe they will succeed “.

“Mantengan la calm, y manden tankques”

NATO members have already sent weapons and equipment – medical or telecommunications – worth thousands of millions of dollars to Ukraine, but the country is asking for more air defense resources, tanks and long-range missiles to force the retreat of Russian forces. stocks, especially ammunition, in various NATO countries through supplies to Ukraine.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis noted that the demands of the ministers of NATO countries are simple and reduced to the slogan “Keep calm and send tanks.” NATO sources insist that the reunion in Bucharest will demonstrate the unity of the transatlantic alliance in support of Ukraine. Sin embargo, the alliance should not proceed with Ukraine’s request to join the bloc. Stoltenberg insisted that “the door is open” to new members, but he added that he was now focused on helping Ukraine before a Russian offensive.

Apart from the war in Ukraine, NATO ministers will assess the progress made on the accession of Finland and Sweden, which has been ratified by 28 of the 30 member states but is still on hold pending a green light from Turkey. The foreign ministers of Sweden, Finland and Turkey met on the sidelines of the meeting, but the Turkish government downplayed hopes for quick progress.