NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg condemned the killing of Ambassador Andrei Karlov, shot point-blank by a man reported to be an off-duty police officer shouting about Russia’s role in Aleppo. “My condolences to [Karlov’s] family and the Russian people,” Stoltenberg tweeted. “[There’s] no justification for such a heinous act.”
Just hours after NATO and Russia wrapped up a “frank” meeting at NATO headquarters and the European Union formally extended sanctions on the Kremlin, both organizations rushed to offer condolences to Moscow on the shocking news that the Russian ambassador to Turkey had been murdered at an art exhibit in Ankara.
After talks in Brussels, both NATO and the EU have offered condolences to Moscow on the news of the murder of the Russian ambassador in Ankara. Teri Schultz reports from Brussels.