{"id":1232362,"date":"2025-10-10T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1232362"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:55:30","slug":"military-aid-to-ukraine-does-not-mean-nato-is-at-war-with-russia-alliance-legal-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/military-aid-to-ukraine-does-not-mean-nato-is-at-war-with-russia-alliance-legal-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Aid to Ukraine Does Not Mean NATO Is at War With Russia \u2013 Alliance Legal Adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Providing military aid to Ukraine, including weapons, does not make NATO a party to the war against Russia,<\/strong> said <strong>John Swords<\/strong>, NATO\u2019s Chief Legal Adviser, during the <strong>Riga Conference<\/strong> panel <em>\u201cPlans, Resources, and Resolve: How to Help Ukraine Function.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cFrom the perspective of international law, there is nothing legally problematic about providing assistance to Ukraine. It is the victim of blatant aggression and has the right to self-defense, which it exercises in accordance with international humanitarian law,\u201d Swords stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He explained that <strong>NATO allies carefully manage escalation risks<\/strong> by avoiding direct involvement in the conflict, strictly adhering to international rules that govern warfare \u2014 namely, <em>jus ad bellum<\/em> (the right to war), <em>jus in bello<\/em> (rules of warfare), and <strong>the law of neutrality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Swords, <strong>assisting Ukraine with military equipment \u201cis not the use of force\u201d under the UN Charter (Articles 2 and 4) or <em>jus ad bellum<\/em>.<\/strong> It also does not constitute an <strong>attack on Russia<\/strong> or <strong>direct participation in hostilities<\/strong> under <em>jus in bello<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the outdated concept of neutrality, which once required third countries to remain impartial between warring parties, Swords said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThat is clearly wrong in the era of the UN Charter and the prohibition of aggression. We cannot be expected to treat aggressors who violate the law the same way we treat their victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported earlier, <strong>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong> named <strong>the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway<\/strong> as the six countries that have contributed the most to the <strong>PURL program<\/strong>, through which Ukraine purchases weapons from the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providing military aid to Ukraine, including weapons, does not make NATO a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1232363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,49,36418,36415],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1232362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-uk","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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