NATO calls for increased air defense support to Ukraine

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that he expects the alliance to step up supplies of air defense systems to Ukraine in the face of Russia's winter missile attack.

Stoltenberg said one of the messages from the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Bucharest would be the need for further steps to provide more air defense systems, ammunition, spare parts and training to Ukraine.

He added that with missiles and drones targeting energy infrastructure, Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to use winter as a weapon of war against Ukraine.

Stoltenberg was speaking alongside Romanian President Klaus Iohannis ahead of a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers on Tuesday and Wednesday in Bucharest.

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