MOSCOW, December 7 – RIA Novosti. NATO will not be able to “calculate” Vladimir Putin’s further steps in Ukraine and arrange the necessary assistance for Kiev, it said. Policy Samuel Cherep, political expert at think tank RAND Corporation.

“It is almost impossible to calculate Ukraine’s real needs for both military and humanitarian aid because the nature of war is changing so fast,” Cherep said.

He noted that the North Atlantic Alliance had a difficult time planning for the long-term needs that Kiev would face. According to him, “unpredictability on the battlefield” only works for Moscow.

The article states that Kiev has been asking its Western allies to increase arms, humanitarian aid and funding for months, but the defense budgets of some NATO member states are at risk, particularly in the face of high inflation and rising energy prices. .

According to Politico, an extreme measure would help ease tensions within the alliance – redistributing funds from a trust fund previously created to support the Afghan military. But this money will not help Kiev to endure until winter.

Speaking at the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Western countries that support the Kiev regime have started to become a party to the conflict. He also noted that any shipment of weapons to Ukraine would become a legitimate target for Russia. Russian President’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that pumping weapons into the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the West did not contribute to the success of the Russia-Ukraine negotiations and would have a negative impact.