NATO not involved in Ukraine war

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NATO as an institution is not involved in the Ukraine war, despite Russia spreading false rumors, former US Deputy Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Jim Townsend says.

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00:00Firstly, Russia and Belarus have accused NATO of hostile and destabilising actions in the

00:07Ukraine war.

00:08What exactly do you make of this?

00:10Well, NATO is not involved in the Ukraine war.

00:14NATO allies individually are, but NATO as an institution is not involved there.

00:22I think that they're trying to spread some rumours about what NATO's doing, other than

00:28what NATO is doing is putting troops into allied countries that fear an invasion by

00:34Russia.

00:35But you're not seeing the NATO flag in Ukraine.

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