NATO estimates that a second phase of war in Ukraine is inevitable. It will be much more complex and bloody.
This was stated by Deputy Secretary General of the Alliance Mircea Geoana in a commentary for the Digi24.
"Everything indicates that we are waiting for the imminent entry into the second stage of this war, very bloody. We are entering the second stage, more complex, different in nature from the first stage, in a much wider territory, both in the east, in the Donbas, and in the south, towards the Crimea and Mariupol," Geoana said and called the second stage of the war "inevitable."
According to him, the Alliance has data on the regrouping of Russian forces and replenishing their huge losses incurred at the first stage of the war.
Geoana assured that NATO countries supply Ukraine with a large number of armored vehicles, military equipment and weapons capable of hitting targets at long distances.
"This second part of the war will be different in quality, intensity and consistency, so it is natural that we are helping Ukraine to this stage of the war," the NATO representative said.