Rishi Sunak needs to make a tangible “multiyear” commitment to Ukraine in the face of Russia’s aggression, a former NATO chief has said.
“[We must] keep Ukraine at the top of the agenda because they’re fighting for us out there,” Lord Robertson, former NATO secretary general, told Sky News.
“What I want is a multiyear commitment,” he added, saying the “only thing that the Kremlin will listen to is how many years that [it’s] going to be with the Ukrainians”.
He said the Russian invasion has “completely tipped up the [international] order” that we’ve grown used to, and said if Vladimir Putin “gets away with swallowing up a country of 44 million people right in the very heart of Europe, where will he stop?
“He certainly is not going to stop with Ukraine.”
As a result, “the rest of us will be in danger as well, because he will be fuelled by any success that he has in Ukraine”.
He concluded: “So they’re fighting for us, and that’s why I believe that we need to be ramping up the production of weapons and of ammunition in this country in order to make sure that they get the equipment that they require at this time.”
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