Strengthening Ukraine's air defense will be NATO's top priority - Stoltenberg

Jens Stoltenberg said this when he arrived at the ministerial meeting of the Alliance states in Brussels.

"I welcome that NATO Allies are providing air defence systems. That is extremely important and I welcome the recent announcement by Germany and also the delivery of German air defence systems to Ukraine. I think we all have seen why this is so important. The horrific indiscriminate attacks against Ukrainian cities, civilians killed, civilian critical infrastructure destroyed and not least the attacks on the  the energy system, the energy infrastructure, is serious as we approach winter," the NATO Secretary General said. 

He emphasized that Ukraine needs more different types of systems to protect its skies.

"All of this demonstrates the urgent need for more air defence for Ukraine. Allies have provided air defence but we need even more. We need different types of air defence: short range, long range, air defence systems to take ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, drones, different systems for different tasks ," Stoltenberg said.

He added that Ukraine is a large country with a large number of cities, and therefore support should be increased so that Ukraine can protect more civilians.