00:00A NATO e a União Europeia estão a trabalhar na criação de uma barreira contra drones
00:06considerada fundamental para as capacidades de defesa e dissuasão da Europa,
00:11dadas as crescentes incursões de drones e caças russos sobre o espaço aéreo de vários países,
00:17incluindo a Polónia e a Roménia.
00:19Os ministros da Defesa da NATO reuniram-se esta semana para discutir o tema,
00:24mas também a melhor forma de reagir a estes incidentes,
00:27com um número crescente de aliados a ter-se comprometido
00:30com o financiamento da lista de necessidades prioritárias da Ucrânia.
00:34O coronel Martin O'Donnell, porta-voz do Comando Supremo das potências aliadas na Europa,
00:40diz que a proteção do flanco oriental do continente é a principal prioridade.
00:57He views the eastern front not simply as those countries that border the east.
01:02He views that from the high north all the way down to the Black Sea,
01:06the Mediterranean Sea and beyond, and at depth.
01:09As the NATO Secretary General has said, we're all eastern flank nations.
01:13One of the issues coming into this meeting was how and whether to shoot down Russian jets or drones,
01:18that there wasn't a uniform rules of engagement.
01:20How has that changed or evolved during this few days?
01:23So I think one of the most important things to mention is the fact that SACER,
01:29Supreme Allied Commander Europe, with all forces that are assigned to him, assigned to NATO,
01:35has the authorities at the moment to act.
01:38And we saw that with the incident in Poland and Estonia recently,
01:44where NATO had the authorities to and acted appropriately.
01:48There's been a lot of reports that there's been quite a sudden and sharp decrease in military spending,
01:55military support for Ukraine amongst allies, over 40%.
01:58I mean, what's your response to that?
02:00Is that worrying, obviously, now coming into the winter?
02:03There was momentum from all the nations on contributions,
02:07not just to, per se, bilateral contributions from a nation to Ukraine,
02:12or multilateral contributions, but also for initiatives such as the PIRL or the Prioritized Ukraine
02:19Requirements List.
02:20Very, very good response.
02:21I believe you heard that from the Secretary General, right?
02:24More than half of NATO allies have expressed commitments to contribute.
02:29And I think we'll see here more announcements very, very soon.
02:33Now, we know that Donald Trump is obviously going to make a decision on Friday about tomahawks
02:36and the use of tomahawks.
02:37But what's your own impression of the impact of this discussion?
02:41Well, I think there's a number of things worldwide, right, that potentially make the movement
02:48towards peace more possible.
02:50We saw recent developments in the Middle East, right, that President Trump drove.
02:54We'll see what happens on Friday, and we'll see what happens from Friday.
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