WASHINGTON and Berlin sought yesterday to appease their bellicose eastern allies yesterday ahead of Friday’s Nato summit in Warsaw.

Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said the imperialist alliance needed to set its sights on Iraq, Syria, North Africa and Russia, which he claimed had “used force against an independent nation in Europe, Ukraine.”

US Secretary of State John Kerry met Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev to pledge continuing support to the fascist-backed coup regime.

On the agenda was the Minsk II peace deal with anti-fascist forces in the eastern Donbass region, which the Kiev government has so far not implemented.

“It is committed to do more as the security conditions allow,” Mr Kerry said.

Mr Kerry tried to blame Russia for delays, saying that “Minsk is doomed to fail” if Moscow does not de-escalate the conflict.

Mr Kerry had just arrived from fellow former Soviet republic Georgia, which, like Ukraine, is seeking Nato membership.

Meanwhile Ukrainian MP and former neonazi militia member Nadezhda Savchenko was in Warsaw a day ahead of the summit.

She addressed parliament and thanked Poland for its support while she was on trial in Russia for her role in killing two Russian journalists in the Donbass in 2014.

In Berlin German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the Baltic states and Poland “need a clear reassurance by the alliance” in the face of a resurgent Russia and the disastrous outcome of the Ukraine coup.

“This means deterrence and dialogue, the clear commitment to solidarity with our partners in the alliance … and an outstretched hand for dialogue” to Moscow, she told parliament.

The Chancellor defended the siting of US anti-ballistic missile systems in Europe — which Russia sees as a bid to neutralise its nuclear deterrent.

“It is not directed against Russia,” she claimed to heckling from opposition MPs. “It does not influence the strategic balance between Nato and Russia.”

The summit will also recognise cyberspace as an official “operational domain” for military activities.

Bogdan Botezatu, an analyst for Romanian security technology company Bitdefender, said that “cyberspace is basically now a battlefield along with air, sea and land.”

Bitdefender worked on cybersecurity for Ukraine in 2014 after Nato assigned Romania to upgrade security there.