“Russia could lay down arms and end its war today. Ukraine does not have that option,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who is on a visit to Kyiv, told a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Report informs.

According to him, Ukraine’s surrender would not mean peace: “It would mean brutal Russian occupation. Peace at any price would be no peace at all. Ukraine needs a just and sustainable peace. And I therefore strongly welcome President Zelenskyy’s ten-point plan to achieve that goal.”