NATO’s secretary general says that while there’s an urgent need for diplomacy to resolve the crisis in eastern Europe, it’s up to Russia — not Ukraine — to show flexibility.
In an interview with CBC News airing today, Jens Stoltenberg was asked whether the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could — or should — be doing more under the existing Minsk agreements to pull Europe back from the brink of a new war.
Moscow has precipitated the current crisis, he said.
“The aggressor is Russia,” Stoltenberg told CBC’s chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton. “To expect that the victim of aggression should de-escalate is to really
