NATO assures Ukraine open-ended military support against Russia

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NATO on Sunday pledged open-ended military support for Ukraine, as Finland hailed its "historic" bid to join the alliance and with Western claims that Russia had suffered heavy losses in its push east.

Want to see the E22 local results forAt a meeting of alliance foreign ministers in Berlin, Germany's Annalena Baerbock said it would provide military assistance"for as long as Ukraine needs this support for the self-defense of its country.

Stoltenberg said the alliance would look to provide both with interim security guarantees while the applications are processed, including possibly by increasing troops in the region. Away from the conflict, Ukraine was basking in the morale-boosting glory of the landside win of its entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, the world's biggest live music event.On the battlefield, Russia's defense ministry claimed it had carried out "high-precision" missile strikes on four artillery munitions depots in the Donetsk area in the east of Ukraine.

Demoralized Russian troops had failed to make substantial gains and Moscow's battle plan was "significantly behind schedule,""Russia has now likely suffered losses of one third of the ground combat force it committed in February. But both figures are widely suspected to be inflated, and have not been verified by AFP or independent conflict monitors.A senior NATO military official estimated at the same time that between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian soldiers could have been killed in the fighting up to that point.Russia has increasingly turned its attentions to eastern Ukraine after failing to capture Kyiv.But Ukrainian commanders have been more upbeat and expect a turning point by August.

 

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