White House country wide security adviser Jake Sullivan says Russia will face a response from Nato should any of its attacks in Ukraine pass borders and hit contributors of the safety alliance.
Russian missiles on Sunday struck a army training base shut to Ukraine’s western border with Nato member Poland and killed 35 people.
Sullivan tells CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that President Joe Biden “has been clear many times that the United States will work with our allies to defend each inch of Nato territory and that ability each inch.”
Sullivan says a navy assault on Nato territory would cause the invocation of Article 5. That requires other nations in Nato to come to the protection of the attacked nation. Sullivan says “We will carry the full pressure of the Nato alliance to bear in responding.”
Sullivan says Nato would reply even if a shot by means of Russia that hit Nato territory used to be accidental.