Recent comments from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg constitute an admission that NATO is fighting on Ukraine’s side against Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.
“NATO is not party to the conflict. But our support is playing a key role,” Stoltenberg said during a news conference Tuesday.
Peskov has previously warned that the involvement of NATO, and therefore the US, would be “extremely dangerous.”
On September 28 he said that the US is getting closer to becoming a party to the conflict.
“More and more, the American side is getting into this conflict, getting closer to becoming a party to the conflict, which is extremely dangerous,” Peskov told reporters.
Stoltenberg also said Tuesday that NATO has enhanced the protection of critical infrastructure following the suspected sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in late September.
“Any deliberate attack against allies’ critical infrastructure would be met with a united and determined response,” he said.
Stoltenberg went on to add that “hybrid and cyber attacks can trigger Article 5,” though he stressed that he could not comment on specific incidents while investigations were ongoing
Article 5 is the principle that an attack on one member of NATO is an attack on all members, triggering collective defensive action.
