“Ukraine and Georgia are unprotected from Russia’s aggression. These counties aspire at NATO membership and the biggest lesson that we learnt is that we should support vulnerable countries,” said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Munich at the panel discussion Beyond the Alliance: Partnering up for European Security.

According to NATO Chief, the war in Ukraine demonstrated that security is not regional, it is global. He said he welcomed British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s initiative “to provide Ukraine with advanced NATO-standard capabilities that it will need in the future.” As, he remarked a framework should be established for peace in the future, so that when the war is over, the history is not repeated and Russia never intervenes in Ukraine.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg went on to remind that Georgia and Ukraine experienced Russian aggression; It all started in Georgia in 2008, then it continued in 2014 in Crimea and Donbass and last year with the full-scale intrusion in Ukraine. “We should support vulnerable to Russian aggression countries as much as we can, fast and now,” he stressed.

The NATO Secretary General highlighted the need to learn “some important lessons” from the Ukraine conflict.

“First, we must sustain and step up our support to Ukraine” and “give Ukraine what they need to win,” Stoltenberg pointed out. “The second lesson is that we need to continue to strengthen our deterrence and defense.”

He went on to say: “The third lesson is that we need to strengthen the resilience of our societies. Military forces are necessary to protect our security but they are not sufficient. We must also secure our cyberspace, our supply chains and our infrastructure,” the NATO chief stressed.