NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is convinced that only Ukraine will decide what the conditions will be for negotiations with Russia in order to achieve a peace treaty.

In Brussels on Tuesday, before the start of the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the level of defense ministers, Stoltenberg answered the question of whether he believes that Ukraine should begin to seek negotiations with Russia.

He said Ukraine decides what are acceptable terms for negotiations and, more importantly, what are acceptable terms for any agreement. According to him, it is the responsibility of NATO allies to support Ukraine so that it can defend itself, because it is also in our interests to show that NARO upholds international law and help Ukraine fight back against a war of aggression.

The NATO Secretary General said wars are unpredictable, no one can say how and when this war will end. He added that likelihood of an acceptable outcome of the negotiations becomes greater the more military support NATO provides to Ukraine, because so far they have not seen any goodwill from President Putin to negotiate an acceptable solution for Ukraine. Stoltenberg said the only way to achieve this is to convince President Putin that he will not win on the battlefield, and the only way to achieve this is to strengthen Ukraine's military capabilities through support. Therefore, solutions to achieve this is military support for Ukraine, he also said.

Commenting at the request of journalists on the fact that Russia receives ammunition from North Korea, he said NATO allies are also strengthening and increasing production. Stoltenberg said this is something they started talking about last summer, and allies in the United States, the UK, as well as European allies EU, Germany and many of them are now increasing production. He said he was in Germany over the weekend and was encouraged by reports that they are producing more, but also investing in increasing production capacity.

The Secretary General refused to comment on reports that Special Operations Forces Colonel Roman Chervinsky was involved in the bombing of Nord Stream 2.