NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference after the Russia-NATO Council meeting in BrusselsBRUSSELS, 23 Mar. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance believes that Belarus «is already involved in the conflict in Ukraine.» An extraordinary NATO summit on the situation in Ukraine will be held on March 24 in Brussels with the participation of American leader Joe Biden. Vladimir Zelensky will address the meeting participants. military infrastructure, airspace. It is already involved in this conflict,» he said at a press conference on the eve of the summit. «We call on Belarus to stop this assistance,» the secretary general added. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. Donbass, if required
