BRUSSELS — NATO will closely monitor Russia’s upcoming nuclear exercise but not be cowed into dropping support for Ukraine by Moscow’s veiled nuclear threats,…
“We will not be intimidated,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters after a two-day meeting of the alliance’s defense ministers. “Russia’s nuclear rhetoric is dangerous, reckless, and they know that if they use nuclear weapon against Ukraine, it will have severe consequences.”Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Stoltenberg said NATO would monitor Russia’s annual nuclear drills very closely, as it has done for decades, and remain vigilant “not least in light of the veiled nuclear threats and the dangerous rhetoric we have seen from the Russian side.” Canceling the drills because of the war in Ukraine would have sent a “very wrong signal,” Stoltenberg said on Tuesday.
The NATO chief said a nuclear strike would fundamentally change the nature of the conflict and signify the crossing of a very important line. Like Stoltenberg, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also declined to speculate how NATO might respond to a nuclear strike, calling Russia’s threats “reckless” and “irresponsible.”
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