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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says Ukraine has an "urgent, critical need for more air defence", at a G7 foreign ministers meeting on Capri. Ukraine has struggled on the battlefield for months, outgunned and outnumbered by Russian forces amid a shortage of Western military aid. SOUNDBITE
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says Ukraine "simply cannot wait" for more air defences as Kyiv pleads with Western allies to step up deliveries to stave off Russia's attacks. Speaking in Brussels, during a press conference alongside Finland's President Alexander Stubb, Stoltenberg says "delays in funding are having direct consequences on the ground every day." SOUNDBITE
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says that Ukraine's western backers are looking to provide Kyiv with more air defences to protect against Russia's "indiscriminate" missile attacks across the country. "We will address how to ramp up support for Ukraine and the top priority will be more air defence for Ukraine," Stoltenberg says at the start of a meeting by Ukraine's allies on arms supplies to Kyiv. SOUNDBITE
As NATO celebrates its 75th anniversary in the shadow of the war in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba asks allies for more Patriot air defence systems. SOUNDBITE
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says a delay in passing new US aid for Ukraine was already hurting Kyiv's forces on the battlefield against Russia. "We see the impact already of the fact that the US has not been able to make a decision, but I expect the US to be able to make a decision, that the Congress and the House of Representatives will agree continued support to Ukraine," Stoltenberg tells journalists at a meeting of the alliance's defence ministers in Brussels. SOUNDBITE
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