NATO member states and other arms producers around the world need to step up their production to help Ukraine, the victim of Russian military aggression, Roland Freudenstein, Vice President and Head of GLOBSEC Brussels, told Report.
“What he [NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg] said about stockpiles running low, is a warning. But I’m confident that Ukraine’s friends will step up and deliver in time.
2023 will be a tough year in this respect, but Ukraine will prevail, with the help of the Global West,” he noted.
“Russia will experience a military, economic and therefore sooner or later political disaster. If not this year, then 2024 or 2025. NATO’s door remains open, that’s one of the essential new developments of 2022. Finland and Sweden joining NATO is not only a military boost for the alliance. It is also the contrary of what Putin wanted to achieve. And this will continue.
Ukraine will receive substantial security guarantees, and massive further assistance for its defense, after having pushed back the Russian invasion. And at some point, it will also become a member of NATO - precisely because of what Russia has been doing - not only since 2022. Russians will have to understand that it's not NATO that is desperate to enlarge, but Russia’s neighbors that are keen to join NATO because they want to remain free countries.”