The NATO Parliamentary Assembly called to allow Ukraine to strike with Western weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly called on the governments of their countries to grant Ukraine permission to strike with Western weapons on the territory of Russia.
People’s deputy and head of the permanent delegation of Ukraine to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Yehor Chernev announced this on his Facebook page.
Declaration of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly with a call to allow Western weapons to strike the Russian Federation
According to him, it is about lifting certain restrictions on hitting legitimate targets deep in Russia.
— We managed to push through this decision at the last moment, since this item was not included in the initial version of the declaration, — Chernev wrote.
He noted that one of the decisive factors was the support of this initiative by the American delegation led by Mike Turner and Gerald Connolly. Chernev added that now parliamentarians will have legal grounds to put even more pressure on their governments to implement the decisions of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
In a statement, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly said that the bloc’s member countries should speed up the supply of critical weapons needed by Ukraine to win the war with Russia, and remove restrictions that prohibit their use against military facilities on the territory of Russia.
“Ukraine must be provided with everything necessary, as soon as possible and for as long as it needs for victory,” – says the declaration adopted by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly at the end of its spring session in Sofia.
The declaration called on NATO governments to “support Ukraine in its international right to self-defense by lifting some restrictions on the use of weapons provided by NATO member states to attack legitimate targets in Russia.”
It was approved by an overwhelming majority of more than 200 lawmakers from 32 member countries of the bloc at a plenary meeting attended by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
