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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said he does not believe Ukraine should hold back from striking targets inside Russia for the sake of potential "peace talks" and stressed that it was Moscow that started the war.

Source: Rutte at a press conference in Brussels ahead of a meeting of NATO defence ministers, as reported by European Pravda

Details: A journalist from the Russian media outlet The Breakfast Show, which broadcasts from Lithuania, asked Rutte what NATO wants: "for Ukraine to continue the pressure, or to hold back for those talks" to end the war that Russia started.

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