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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Vladimir Putin 'thought lazy NATO would abandon Ukraine to Russian troops'

Vladimir Putin thought “lazy” NATO would give up on Ukraine, the alliance’s chief claimed today.

Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg railed against the Russian tyrant following a meeting of coalition foreign ministers in Oslo.

Mr Stoltenberg said: “I believe that in Moscow they think that democracies are lazy, that we are not ready to stand by Ukraine for as long as it takes - and we are going to prove the opposite by demonstrating that democracies are actually able to stand up for their values and be there when they are needed to defend democracy and freedom, as we do when we support Ukraine.”

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