NATO Stoltenberg: "Most Serious Escalation Since The Start Of The War"

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is delivering remarks from NATO HQ in Brussels in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's "annexation address."

• Livestream: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/events_67375.htm
• Stoltenberg: "Russia's annexations are the largest in Europe since the Second World War."
• Stoltenberg: "NATO allies do not recognise any of territory as part of Russia."
• Stoltenberg: "NATO us not a party to the conflict but our support for Ukraine is unchanged."
• Stoltenberg's address follows a meeting with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan a short time ago to discuss, "the apparent sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea," and "Russia's new "illegitimate" annexation of Ukrainian territories," per the White House.
• The G7 has also released a statement today dismissing Moscow's annexations: "We will never recognise these purported annexations, nor the sham “referenda” conducted at gunpoint. The regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson & Zaporizhzhya as well as Crimea are integral parts of Ukraine."