If Russian forces launch an attack on a Western convoy delivering arms to Ukraine, NATO will consider this a reason to invoke Article 5 of the military bloc's treaty, which assures its members’ collective self-defense, Aleksey Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, claimed on Sunday, citing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
“Today, the head of NATO… Mr. Stoltenberg has made a statement: if a single projectile, a single bullet hits a convoy that … [is delivering arms] to Ukraine, [NATO] will consider it a trigger for Article 5 [of the North Atlantic Treaty],” Danilov said while on air on Rada, the Ukrainian parliament's TV Channel.
Neither NATO nor Stoltenberg personally has made any public statements on Sunday confirming or denying Danilov’s assertion. The Ukrainian official’s statement comes a day after Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov warned that Russia would consider arms convoys heading for Ukraine to be “legitimate targets” for Russian forces. Ryabkov has not elaborated on whether the convoys could be targeted on Ukrainian territory or elsewhere.
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Excuse me but by delivering arms aren't you already screwing the treaty? Staying neutral my ass. Yes the Russians are just going to let arms and ammo go to wha they deem as the enemy.
Exactly my first thought, this is not a proxy war, two opposing nation's funding and supplying a war between two other nations.
If NATO supplies weapons to Ukraine to kill Russians they have entered the war, making the supply convoy a viable target for Russia.
Sounds like they are desperately looking for an excuse to start ww3
Yup.
Also notice that there has been no official NATO statement, so it is just wishful thinking and virtue signalling to those who are ardently clinging to their words.
Yup. NATO specifically trying to play the optics games.
Fuck NATO. Done with this bullshit.
That's an interesting question. This is the text of the NATO treaty:
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_17120.htm
Relevant for this is Article 1:
"The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations."
So the answer to the question of whether supplying arms to Ukraine violates the NATO treaty seems to depend on what the UN says. If the UN says that Russia is the aggressor and that supplying arms to Ukraine is allowed, then NATO treaty says that it's okay.
Ukraine is lying again, some more, as usual.
Now they're starting to sound like Jussie Smollett... 'I didn't do it, I ain't crazy, if anything habbens it wasn't meeeee...'
dindo nuffin
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lol thanks
My Russian Cyrillic keyboard can only type Киев!
Kyiv
Hahahahaha. Not likely. NATO has no jurisdiction here, and [they] know it. Plus, [they] ALSO know The People aren't having it, so [they] won't be doing anything any time soon.
Neither NATO nor Stoltenberg personally has made any public statements on Sunday onfirming or denying Danilov’s assertion......because it didnt happen..kek
Well, if you're sending arms into a combat zone, you've picked a side. If you're driving the truck with the weapons, that's a legitimate military target.
NATO has no business operating in Ukraine. Ukraine is not a member of NATO and NATO is a defensive alliance only.
These people are really pushing the line, and frankly, I think Putin should destroy any such convoy he finds in Ukraine. They're literally functioning as the logistics and supply operation for their enemy.
If nato does I hope Russia blows them to hell right inside Ukraine Ian territory.
If u are NATO you are worse.thsn useless and still dependent on the u.s.a.
Hope we get the he'll out of that farce.
He doesn't need to worry. It won't be a "single bullet."
Russia will blow it to smithereens.
Who could blame them.
so use a direct energy weapon, not a single bullet fired. problem solved.
Breaking News:.....No they won't
/web/20220313143122/https://rt.com/russia/551798-kiev-nato-defend-arms-convoys/ the sauCe
Act of war to even ship NATO arms into Ukraine
Which reminds me of a particular towel that was keeping a particular bomb close company recently...
Fuck nato and ukraine. Not the U.S problem. No American should give a shit or pay for their corrupt countries war.
I can't help but think about it in more global terms. NATO relies hugely on US forces to bolster its ranks. But they don't have those, because Biden has failed at every turn to get the US military directly involved.
NATO also no longer has the Russian, Chinese or even Indian military to support them, along with that of other anti-globalist countries.
They must realize that in a firefight, they wouldn't have the forces necessary to prevail.
Stoltenberg is 'backing away' (like the lion guy who spent every episode trying to get close to lions by 'backing away'). He stated publicly that Ukrainian membership was not 'imminent'.
Is Mr. Danilov, member of the Ukrainian military, authorised to speak on behalf of NATO, an organisation to which Ukraine is not a party?
I'm getting tired of this. What the hell kind of "movie" has me rooting for Russia to defeat NATO because the world's bastion of freedom has an illegitimate government?
Russia should just let them deliver the weapons and then confiscate them later. Free stuff.
Worked for the Taliban.
This is clearly cleaver false flag bait the EU wants Russia to take into destroying the weapons shipment, giving them the excuse to put their full weight into an actual war with Russia, likely actually starting a WWIII in Europe, AGAIN.
Hmmm. NATO won't enter the airspace, or cross the border. A matter of here you are and away you go. In my opinion those crossings will be sitting duck targets.
Sean Penn is maning the control center from America.
Kiev also claims they're not trafficking children or housing biolabs .... they say a lot of things
Right now its a “He Said, He said” with no public verification from NATO. Let’s cool our jets and see how it plays out.
Ukraine's in NATO now?
Is that you, Kamala?
Fuck Nato. Who are their soldiers anyway? Are there Americans suiting up for NATO?
Poland is going to take Belarus
This! ☝🏻