NATO's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Tuesday that the organisation will be helping Ukraine develop an arms procurement system at a press conference.
Announcing the news three days before the one-year anniversary of the war, Stoltenberg confirmed that NATO will soon be holding a meeting with procurement experts from both Ukraine and the European Union.
Stoltenberg was accompanied by Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba and the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
NATO is aiming "to give Ukraine what they need to win" through an "effective, transparent and accountable" way of procuring arms, according to Stoltenberg.
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NATO allies are also said to have accelerated the procurement of arms due to their belief that "China would soon plan on providing support to Russia's war effort," as stated by Stoltenberg. The Secretary-General added that the Kremlin would soon turn to North Korea and Iran for further support.
In response, Kuleba argued that "the more coordinated we become, the faster the Ukrainian army will chase the Russian army off Ukrainian territory."
At the press conference, the NATO chief also responded to Vladimir Putin's recent speech in which he announced Russia's suspension from the New Start treaty on nuclear disarmament. Stoltenberg stated that "more nuclear weapons and fewer arms control makes the world more dangerous" before calling on Russia to reconsider its withdrawal.
