Former US ambassador to NATO, Robert Hunter, has expressed concern about the amount of military aid being provided to Ukraine by NATO members.
“It’s surprising that the alliance led by the US hasn’t done more so far in terms of anti-drone and anti-missile defences,” Hunter said from Washington DC to Al Jazeera.
Hunter stated that it was clear throughout the autumn that, while the Ukrainians would continue to fight a “valiant fight,” Russia would try to gain an advantage by targeting Ukraine’s sources of power and heat.
In response to Ukraine’s foreign minister’s earlier appeal at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Bucharest, Hunter said, “Faster, faster, faster, has to mean immediately, not something to be talked about and maybe done in a few months.”
The former US envoy said that steps could have been taken to counter the destruction Russia was doing in Ukraine instead of just repairing the damage.
“The US and the NATO, quite frankly, are failing Ukraine.”
