NATO says ready to support Kyiv in a war against Russia that could last years

[April 28, 2022]   BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO is ready to support Ukraine for years in the war against Russia, including helping Kyiv to advance from old Soviet-era weapons to modern Western military equipment, the alliance's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.  

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference along with the European Parliament president at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

"We need to be prepared for the long term...There is absolutely the possibility that this war will drag on and last for months and years," Stoltenberg told a youth summit in Brussels, adding that NATO allies were preparing to help Ukraine to move on to NATO-standard weapons.

(Reporting by Sabine Siebold, editing by Marine Strauss)

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