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NATO countries will need to discuss conditions for Ukraine to get a membership invitation and to join the alliance in response to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's "victory plan", Dutch Defence ...
On 21 April 2005 in Vilnius, as part of an informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the NATO countries, a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Commission was held, which opened a new stage in Ukraine's relations with the alliance – "intensive dialogue", which was intended to be the first step towards Ukraine's entry into NATO. During President ...
Zelenskyy said Article 5 might not apply to all of Ukraine's territory if it joins NATO, to not drag other member states into war. Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
The Biden administration has given Ukraine over $60 billion in military aid since Russia launched its full-scale war in February 2022. NATO countries have also provided Kyiv with tens of billions ...
Ukraine expressed the desire to be formally invited to NATO at the Vilnius summit. [5] On 8 July 2023, US President Joe Biden said that Ukraine is not ready to join NATO at that time. [6] By the time of the summit there were 24 member states that had formally declared their support for Ukraine's NATO membership.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin allegedly declared at a NATO-Russia summit in 2008 that if Ukraine would join NATO his country can contend to annex the Ukrainian East and Crimea. As of April 2024, Russia has annexed the Crimean peninsula and partly four other regions of Ukraine: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. [51]
The war between Russia and Ukraine, which enters its fourth year next month and shows no signs of ending, has killed more than 10,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the United Nations.
The Soviet Union was the primary ideological adversary for NATO during the Cold War. Following its dissolution, several states which had maintained neutrality during the Cold War or were post-Soviet states increased their ties with Western institutions; a number of them requested to join NATO. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine reignited ...