"This would not have happened if Ukraine had received sufficient air defence and if the world had been determined enough to counter Russian terror," Zelensky wrote on Telegram.
In an era marked by geopolitical turbulence, one nation stands out as a persistent source of global concern ~ Russia, under the iron grip of President Vladimir Putin.
At present, NATO has eight battalion-size battlegroups, which can repel a possible Russian attack on the alliance's eastern flank, he added.
Zakharova said that Moscow will choose which measures it will take, including military-technical ones, to curb threats to Russia's national security, Xinhua news agency reported.
The presence of Western troops in Ukraine in any form would lead to a "direct escalation" of the situation, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.
Turkey will not approve Sweden's bid to join NATO as long as it continues to allow Quran-burning protests, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, adding that his country looks positively on Finland's application for membership of the military alliance.
Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), will visit South Korea early next week on a regional swing that will also take him to Japan, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
NATO and defence leaders from about 50 countries met at the American Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Friday, the latest in a series of arms-pledging conferences since Russia invaded Ukraine 11 months ago.
The 2022 Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) annual conflict study reported that in 2021, 54 state-based conflicts occurred in 35 countries, with nearly 85,000 battle-related deaths.
Germany, as yet, is not directly involved in the war. But it is separated from Ukraine and Russia by just a few hundred kilometres of Polish territory. Therefore, it is Poland that is bearing the brunt of the war. Several million Ukrainian citizens, mainly women and children have taken refuge in Poland alone. The number of Ukrainian refugees in Germany is almost a million and they are there at most places. They have refugee status, are allowed to work and draw social benefits. This of course causes some amount of envy in other immigrant groups
