Leaders at the upcoming NATO
summit will come up with a new strategy to face the threat of
war, newly appointed European Council President Donald Tusk said
Monday.
There must be "a new policy to face the threat of war,
which is no longer just in east Ukraine," the Polish premier
said on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the onset of
World War II.
NATO leaders are to meet September 4-5 in Newport, Wales.
Tusk's comments came as Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy
Geletei warned that "a great war has arrived in Ukraine, the
likes of which has not been seen in Europe since WWII".
Also on Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the
Bundestag, or German parliament, that the ongoing fighting
between Ukraine and pro-Russia separatists is no longer just an
internal conflict.
"What we have here is a clash between Russia and Ukraine,"
she told German MPs.
Kiev has been battling separatists in its eastern region
ever since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula earlier
this year.
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