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At the NATO enlargement summit in November 2002, the NATO–Ukraine commission adopted a NATO-Ukraine Action Plan. [37] President Kuchma's declaration that Ukraine wanted to join NATO (also in 2002) and the sending of Ukrainian troops to Iraq in 2003 [26] could not mend relations between Kuchma and NATO. [26]
NATO members agreed at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that Georgia and Ukraine "will become members of NATO in the future". [ 17 ] Bosnia and Herzegovina was invited by NATO to join the Membership Action Plan (MAP) in April 2010.
The position of Russian leaders on Ukraine-NATO relations has changed over time. In 2002, Russia's president Vladimir Putin declared no objections to Ukraine's growing relations with NATO, saying it was a matter for Ukraine and NATO. [170] From 2008, Russia began stating its opposition to Ukraine's membership.
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 ...
NATO chief Mark Rutte told Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy "your security matters for ours" on Thursday during his first visit to Kyiv since becoming the alliance's secretary-general.
‘Nato stands with you today, tomorrow and for as long as it takes,’ Jens Stoltenberg says on first visit to Kyiv since Russia’s invasion started
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.
Zelenskyy said a NATO invitation must recognize all of Ukraine's territory as its own, but Article 5 need not apply to areas captured by Russia.