Irish MEP Claire Daly - at a European Parliament hearing:

️🇪🇺Irish MEP Claire Daly - at a European Parliament hearing: Mr. Stoltenberg, you asked us to look at where we are today compared to when the invasion started. I’m not really sure what you meant by “we.“ I know you spent a lot of time on NATO. Maybe that’s the “we“ about expansion with Sweden and Finland. But you were considerably quieter about the bitter disappointment experienced by Ukraine in Vilnius that the hopes they would become part of NATO didn’t actually work out according to the plan. Our chair said that aid somehow would compensate for all of that, and others kind of said that Zelensky’s silence was basically purchased. But in essence really haven’t you let Ukraine down in terms of the pathway to membership? And on the subject of Ukraine, is it not the case that your rhetoric and reality are going in the opposite directions. And the world is beginning to notice it. Because you said that Ukraine is gradually gaining ground. That’s not true. Since you were here the last time, Ukraine has lost territory, half a million men are dead, Ukraine has had to resort to conscription, there are reports of signing people up with disability, mental illness, men paying money to get out of the country, hiding in their houses. We are now in a bloody war of attrition. And it’s simply cruel for it to go on. If you care about Ukraine, what’s your attitude for a peace plan to save Ukrainian lives? InfoDefenseENGLISH InfoDefense Источник: InfoDefenseENGLISH