Europe 1 with AFP 2:50 p.m., April 5, 2022

Russia is strengthening itself to "take control of the whole of Donbass", in eastern Ukraine, and achieve "a land bridge with Crimea", annexed by Moscow in 2014, said Tuesday the secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg.

Russia is strengthening itself to "take control of the whole of Donbass", in eastern Ukraine, and achieve "a land bridge with Crimea", annexed by Moscow in 2014, said Tuesday the secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg.

"We are in a crucial phase of the war," he warned during a press conference on the eve of a meeting of Alliance foreign ministers.

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