NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called on NATO member states to supply more weapons to Ukraine as Russia’s offensive is ongoing.
Russia shelled Ukrainian towns across a long stretch of the front line from north to south, Ukrainian officials said Friday, a day after Moscow fired dozens of missiles in its latest barrage against critical infrastructure.
NATO has reacted to the offensive nature of Russia in Ukraine through its secretary.
Stoltenberg, on Friday, said the need for ammunition and spare parts was ‘enormous.’
He told DPA that military support for Ukraine was the fastest way to peace, Reuters reports.
‘I call on allies to do more. It is in all our security interests to make sure Ukraine prevails and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin does not win,’ Stoltenberg told German news agency DPA on Friday.
‘We know that most wars end at the negotiating table — probably this war too — but we know that what Ukraine can achieve in these negotiations depends inextricably on the military situation,’ he said.
News emerging from Ukraine report that areas of the Zaporizhzhia region, to the south, also came under heavy Russian shelling, including the contested town of Hulyaipole.
Additionally, there was also shelling in and around Ukrainian-held Nikopol, on the opposite side of the Kakhovka reservoir from the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station.
On the southern front, there were renewed Russian strikes targeting infrastructure in the city of Kherson, which Russian forces abandoned last month, and Kachkarivka, further north on the west bank of the Dnipro River.
Air attack sirens blared overnight into Friday in the capital, Kyiv, and Reuters reported several explosions and the sound of anti-aircraft fire south of the city, as Russian forces launched 16 Iranian-made Shahed drones, the officials said.
