While at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Head of the General Staff of the All-Ukrainian Armed Forces Viktor Muzhenko has held a number of working meetings with high-ranking representatives of the Alliance, during which the parties discussed the situation in Donbas and threats to the European security system caused by Russia’s actions.
The Ukrainian delegation led by Muzhenko held meetings with NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe Curtis Scaparrotti, the press service of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on May 18 evening.
The report says that during the meetings, the Ukrainian chief of defense briefed the NATO officials about the development of the security situation in Ukraine’s east and the threats to the European security system posed by the Russian Federation’s building up its military potential on the borders with Ukraine, Crimea and the western regions of Russia.”
During the conversation, they stressed that the situation in Ukraine’s east remains tense, militants are violating the agreements concerning the introduction of the regime of silence from April 1 of this year, while the constant shelling of residential buildings in the residential areas adjacent to the demarcation line continues.
“Russia continues to support terrorist groups in Ukraine’s east supplying them with logistics, ammunition, fuel, lubricants and food. They also use the separatist-held territories of Ukraine’s east as a testing ground for new types of weapons and military equipment,” the report reads.
During the meetings, representatives of the Alliance assured the Ukrainian delegation about NATO’s unwavering support of Ukraine’s defending its right to independence, territorial integrity and the inviolability of its state borders.
