NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană said the initiative was 'even more crucial' because of Russia's wave of missile strikes on Ukraine this week.
connecting his country to the occupied Crimean peninsula. Putin blamed Ukraine for the damage, calling it an act of"terrorism," though Ukraine has not publicly taken responsibility for the explosion.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg opens the North Atlantic Council defense ministers' meeting during the second and final day of the NATO defense ministers' meeting at the NATO Headquarters on October 13, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. On Thursday, more than a dozen NATO members signed on to an initiative aimed at building a European air and missile defense system as Russia continues a wave of mass strikes on civilian targets in Ukraine.
The 14 NATO allies who signed on to the European Sky Shield Initiative included the U.K., Hungary, Belgium, Romania and Slovakia. Concerns have circulated ever since the start of the war in late February that the conflict could spread beyond Ukraine's borders and even
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