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.