NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said he sees no signs of Russian President Vladimir Putin planning peace now and called for continued military support for Ukraine.

“But what we can do is to just maximise the likelihood that at some stage President Putin will understand that to continue this war will have a too high price. And then at some stage he has to sit down and negotiate to some kind of just, lasting peace where Ukraine prevails as a sovereign independent nation. And the paradox is that if we want that to happen, a peaceful just end to this war, the way to get there is more weapons to Ukraine,” he said during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Tuesday.

So, as the Secretary General stressed, the more credible we are in our military support, the more likely it is that the diplomats will succeed.” According to him, what happens around the negotiating table with diplomats is so closely linked to the situation on the battlefield.

“There are no indications that Putin is planning for peace now, but he will when he realizes that we will not give up, that we have the military strength to support Ukraine,” NATO Secretary General noted.