{"id":240366,"date":"2025-11-02T23:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240366\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T23:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:28:11","slug":"nato-will-stand-with-ukraine-to-get-long-lasting-peace-senior-official-tells-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240366\/","title":{"rendered":"Nato ‘will stand with Ukraine’ to get long-lasting peace, senior official tells BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nato “will stand with Ukraine up to the day in which we will have them sitting around the table for a long-lasting peace”, a senior official from the military alliance has told the BBC.<\/p>\n

Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chair of Nato’s military committee since January, added from an operational point of view he considered the Russia-Ukraine war was bogged down, and “it was almost time to sit and talk because it’s a waste of lives”.<\/p>\n

Pointing to the fact that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 had resulted in two more countries joining the Western alliance – Finland and Sweden – Adm Dragone described the war as a strategic failure for Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite recent slow, incremental advances by Russia on the battlefield. <\/p>\n

“They will not get a friendly or puppet government like in Belarus. Putin will not succeed.”<\/p>\n

Asked if European nations were prepared to keep going with supporting Ukraine’s defence, he said they were. It was beneficial, he believed that they had had something of a wake-up call and were now taking charge of their own defence.<\/p>\n

In June, Nato members agreed to raise their defence spending to 5% of GDP by 2035<\/a>. The move followed repeated urges from US President Donald Trump for members to do so.<\/p>\n

On Russia’s recent announcement about long-range, nuclear-powered weapons<\/a> like the Burevestnik and the Poseidon, the former Italian chief of defence staff and naval aviator played down concerns by Nato, saying that it was a defensive nuclear alliance. <\/p>\n

“We are not threatened by them,” he said, “we are just ready to defend our 32 nations and our one billion people. We are a nuclear alliance.”<\/p>\n

On the risk of future invasions or attacks, Adm Dragone said if – and he emphasised the conditional here – there was to be anywhere it would likely be the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. <\/p>\n

But he pointed out that as Nato states Article 5 would be requested – which considers an attack on one nation to be equivalent to an attack on all – and that Nato would come to their defence. <\/p>\n

Asked if that included the US, he replied: “Yes, because they have committed to this and they have underlined that they are still in the business.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nato “will stand with Ukraine up to the day in which we will have them sitting around the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-240366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}