NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that if Russia stops fighting, there will be peace.

However, if Ukraine stops fighting, it will cease to exist as an independent state.

The Secretary General of the Alliance said this at a press conference on September 30, answering a question about what advice he would give to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

"We call on President Putin to stop the war.

He is responsible for starting it, and it is his responsibility to end it.

Because if Russia stops fighting, there will be peace. If Zelensky and Ukraine stop fighting, then Ukraine will cease to exist as an independent state," Stoltenberg said.

He also assured that NATO's support for Ukraine will not change after Russia's attempt to annex the country's territories.

"We are not talking about a situation where there are two equal sides. On one side there is the aggressor, on the other side there is the victim of aggression, i.e. Ukraine. That is why

we support Ukraine

and this illegal annexation of Ukrainian territories does not change anything in the nature of this war," said the Secretary General Alliance.

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