NATO chief says Putin still seeking to ‘control the whole of Ukraine’

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance has seen no indication that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “changed his ambition to control the whole of Ukraine and rewrite the international order”.

Speaking to reporters at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels, Stoltenberg warned the war “may last for a long time, for many months, or even years.”

However, he also appealed to Putin to “sit down in good faith … [and] find a political solution” to end the conflict.