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NATO's secretary general said Russia's offensive was failing, as foreign ministers meeting in Berlin welcomed anticipated membership bids from Finland and Sweden.
Jens Stoltenberg says the NATO summit in Madrid will agree "a comprehensive programme of assistance" to help Ukraine "enforce its right to self-defence" against Russian aggression.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg urges the alliance's leaders heading to a summit in Madrid to keep up their backing for Ukraine as it faces "a brutality which we haven't seen in Europe since the Second World War." SOUNDBITE
Ukraine can win the war against Russia "if they have the right equipment", Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin says as he returns from a trip to Kyiv with US State Secretary Antony Blinken. "The first step in winning is believing that you can win. And so they believe that we can win," Austin told a group of journalists after he and Blinken had both met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. "We believe that we can win, they can win if they have the right equipment, the right support." ++ COMPLETES VIDI328W8PK_EN ++
Speaking ahead of the NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs meeting, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warns that Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine could last "for many months, for even years". SOUNDBITE
U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group. Jillian Kitchener reports.
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