By John Owen Nwachukwu NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg has said that it was clear Russia underestimated Ukraine’s resistanc...
By John Owen Nwachukwu
NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg has said that it
was clear Russia underestimated Ukraine’s resistance.
According to him, President Vladimir Putin of Russia also
underestimated the unity of the NATO military alliance, adding that Putin has
made a big mistake.
“He [Putin] has made a big mistake; he totally
underestimated the strength of Ukrainian armed forces,” he told CNN.
According to him, President Putin did not foresee the
courage being displayed by President Volodymyr Zelensky and the people of
Ukraine.
He also claimed that the Russian leader had failed in
achieving one of his major objectives at the beginning of the war, which was to
weaken the NATO alliance.
Stoltenberg believes that what is before Putin at this point
is a more strengthened and stronger NATO with two new members, Finland and
Sweden, the former which shares a border with Russia.
Stoltenberg added that he is ignoring Putin’s rhetoric and
that he will “assess him on his actions.”
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