NATO Secretary General claimed great achievements by Ukraine

According to RCO News Agency, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who is originally from Norway, told reporters in Oslo on Thursday: “Ukraine has achieved a lot in the Kursk attack on Russia, but it is impossible to say what the next situation of the battlefield will be.”

“Only the Ukrainians can make the difficult choices that are needed, including where to deploy their forces and what kind of war is appropriate under the circumstances,” Stoltenberg said, according to Reuters.

NATO Secretary General continued his statement that “Ukraine has a legitimate right to defend itself, and this right includes the use of long-range missiles against military targets on Russian soil.”

He added: “I am happy that many NATO countries have given this opportunity to Ukraine, and those that still maintain their imposed restrictions have reduced these restrictions so that Ukraine can defend itself.”

NATO Secretary General’s claim about Ukraine’s “great achievements” in the attack on Kursk, a region located in western Russia, while Russian forces are advancing in eastern Ukraine, according to Reuters.

Even according to the media of Norway, the birthplace of the NATO Secretary General, while about a month has passed since the implementation of the Ukrainian army’s infiltration operation on August 6 in the Kursk region of Russia with the aim of reducing the pressure on the Ukrainian army in the eastern fronts, Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk region They are already in a defensive position.

Volodymyr Zelenskyi, the president of Ukraine, said that one of the goals of the attack on Kursk, in addition to dragging the war into Russian territory, was to force Moscow to reduce the size of its forces in eastern Ukraine in order to reduce the pressure of the Russian army on the Ukrainian army in this area. slow zone

Norway’s “ABC Nieter” website reports that Ukraine has failed to achieve this goal and its army is now forced to fight with the Russian army, which has a significant advantage, while it does not have many men and weapons left.

This situation has caused Western experts to warn that Ukraine’s defense lines are on the verge of collapse, and in the event of this collapse, there will be disastrous consequences for the future course of the war.

The risk of losing a strategic city

The conditions of the battlefield, especially on the eastern front of Ukraine, are extremely detrimental to this country.

2 days ago, the British Ministry of Defense admitted in a report that the Russian army’s ground forces were advancing towards the important and strategic city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine during the past week, and wrote: “During the past seven days, Russian forces have approached up to 10 kilometers from the outskirts of the city; A development that is an important point in the battle for control of the Donetsk region. Pokrovsk is a key logistical hub for Ukrainian forces in the region, and its potential fall could have profound implications for the country’s war against Russia.

In the meantime, a Ukrainian military source told the Financial Times newspaper that Pokrovsk may fall even faster than the city of Bakhmut, which fell to Russian forces earlier.

Pokrovsk is one of the 2 main rail and road connections in the Donetsk region, and its loss would threaten the logistics of the entire region for the Ukrainian military. This city, which had a population of 60,000 before this, has great strategic importance for the Ukrainian army in terms of logistics and the transfer of cargo and soldiers from the origin to the front lines of the battle in eastern Ukraine.

According to the Norwegian media, if the Russians capture these cities, the defense lines of the Ukrainian army will be severely disorganized. So far, thousands of Ukrainians have fled from this city.

On the other hand, according to the report of the German magazine Spiegel, the President of Ukraine will participate in the meeting of the Ramstein Group, a coalition of countries that supply arms to Ukraine, on Friday. It is expected that in this meeting, he will demand to receive more weapons from the western supporters of Ukraine.

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