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Ukraine Is Shedding Blood for ‘NATO Mission’: Ukrainian Defense Minister – News From Antiwar.com

Posted by M. C. on January 12, 2023

“Those people” over there are expendable. More politically expendable than US sons and daughters, for now.

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/01/11/ukraine-is-shedding-blood-for-nato-mission-ukrainian-defense-minister/

by Dave DeCamp

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said last week that Ukraine is “shedding blood” for a “NATO mission” in candid remarks about the relationship between Kyiv and the Western military alliance.

“At the NATO Summit in Madrid (in June 2022), it was clearly delineated that over the coming decade, the main threat to the alliance would be the Russian Federation. Today, Ukraine is eliminating this threat,” Reznikov said in an interview on Ukrainian TV last week.

“We are carrying out NATO’s mission today. They aren’t shedding their blood. We’re shedding ours. That’s why they’re required to supply us with weapons,” he added.

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