(24 Jan 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin - 24 January 2023
1. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius arriving for briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO:
“Weapons from Germany are saving lives in Ukraine every day, protecting homes, schools and hospitals from Russian missile strikes.”
3. Wide of briefing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO:
“The only way to a lasting peace is to make it clear to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin that he will not win on battlefield. Therefore we must provide heavier and more advanced systems, so that Ukrainian forces are able to repel the Russian forces, not only to survive but to win, take back territory and prevail as a sovereign, independent state in Europe.”
5. Journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO:
“At this pivotal moment in the war we must provide heavier and more advanced systems to Ukraine and we must do it faster.”
7. Pistorius and Stoltenberg shaking hands, leaving
STORYLINE:
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that "lasting peace" in Ukraine will only happen if it is clear Russia "will not win on the battlefield," amid pressure from allies to send German Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
Speaking in Berlin alongside German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, Stoltenberg called for heavier and more advanced weaponry for Ukrainian forces at a quicker pace.
He said this would help their troops not just to "survive" but to take back territory.
Poland had said Monday it would ask Berlin for permission to send German-built Leopard tanks to Ukraine as its Western allies move to supply Kyiv with more powerful military hardware to thwart Russia’s invasion.
Stoltenberg defended the level of German military support throughout the course of the war, saying it was "saving lives in Ukraine every day".
Ukraine says tanks -- and especially the Leopards -- are vital to its war effort.
Both sides’ battlefield positions are mostly deadlocked during winter, with new ground offensives expected in the spring.
Russia’s forces are much larger than Ukraine’s, so Kyiv wants to gain an advantage in weaponry and fuller backing from its Western allies.
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