Ukraine war: Nato pledges to provide more weapons and fix power grid - BBC

Nato has pledged to springiness much weapons to Ukraine and assistance hole captious vigor infrastructure severely damaged by monolithic Russian rocket and drone strikes.

At a acme successful Bucharest, the caput wide of the subject alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, accused Moscow of "trying to usage wintertime arsenic a limb of war".

The Russian strikes person near millions of Ukrainians without energy and moving h2o successful freezing temperatures.

Ukraine has for months been asking Nato for much precocious aerial defence systems.

At a gathering successful Berlin, justness ministers of the G7 radical of affluent nations said they would co-ordinate investigations into alleged warfare crimes committed successful Ukraine.

"Judicial introspection of the atrocities committed successful Ukraine volition instrumentality years, possibly adjacent decades. But we volition beryllium good prepared - and we volition persist for arsenic agelong arsenic it takes," said German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann.

Russian President Vladimir Putin - who ordered a full-scale penetration of Ukraine connected 24 February - and different elder Kremlin officials contradict the allegations that Russian troops are committing warfare crimes.

In a abstracted improvement connected Tuesday, Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska told lawmakers successful the UK Parliament successful London that Ukrainians were going done a panic akin to that experienced by the UK successful World War Two, erstwhile Nazi Germany bombed cities successful the blitz.

"Victory is not the lone happening we need, we request justice," Mrs Zelenska said, adding she "came to you for justice, due to the fact that it volition pb to the extremity of this war".

Speaking astatine the commencement of the two-day gathering of Nato overseas ministers successful the Romanian capital, Mr Stoltenberg said: "Russia is really failing connected the battlefield. In effect to that they are present attacking civilian targets, cities due to the fact that they're not capable to triumph territory."

His words were echoed by UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who said that Russia was aiming to "freeze the Ukrainians into submission".

Later connected Tuesday, Nato issued a connection that said Russia's persistent attacks connected Ukrainian civilian and vigor grids were "depriving millions of basal quality services".

Nato members would assistance Ukraine successful repairing its vigor infrastructure and protecting radical from rocket attacks, the connection added.

And appearing astatine a associated quality league with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Mr Stoltenberg said: "We volition basal by Ukraine arsenic agelong arsenic it takes, we volition not backmost down.

"We realise that it is highly important that President Putin is not capable to triumph successful Ukraine. That volition beryllium a calamity for Ukraine, but it volition besides marque the satellite much unsafe and overmuch much vulnerable."

Meanwhile, Mr Kuleba said that past clip helium met elder Nato officials his 3 words were "weapons, weapons, weapons".

"Today I person 3 different words, which are faster, faster and faster. We admit what has been done, but the warfare inactive goes on. Decisions connected weapons and accumulation lines person to beryllium made faster," Mr Kuleba added.

Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Rainsalu aboriginal told BBC World Service's Newshour programme that Nato needed to springiness missiles to Ukraine that tin deed wrong Russian territory.

"The astir logical mode to assistance them is to springiness them the capabilities to efficaciously get into these places from wherever the missiles are launched.

"All options should beryllium connected the table... determination should beryllium nary reddish lines oregon caveats… we should not marque immoderate limitations," Mr Rainsalu said.

The US-led Nato confederation has repeatedly ruled retired supplying longer-range missiles and different specified weaponry to Ukraine, amid concerns that this could pb to a large escalation with a nuclear-armed Russia.

In Ukraine, vigor workers crossed the state are continuing their daunting task of repairing powerfulness and h2o supplies to millions of people, amid warnings that Russia possibly preparing a caller question of rocket attacks.

The country's powerfulness relation Ukrenergo said connected Tuesday that 30% of the country's energy needs were inactive presently not being met, and powerfulness rationing would continue.

Winter is mounting successful in Ukraine, with snowfall and sub-zero temperatures successful galore regions.

There are fears that radical crossed the state could dice of hypothermia.