and Germany insist that the focus should be on supplying weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, rather than taking the more provocative step of extending a formal invitation to join NATO. Only under these conditions our meeting would be meaningful. “Ukraine should get clear security guarantees while it is not in NATO. “It would be an important message to say that NATO is not afraid of Russia,” Zelenskyy said through a translator in an ABC interview, when asked whether he would come to Vilnius. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, called for a unified signal from NATO on Ukraine and for his country to join the alliance. ambassador to Poland who is now a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council. “A gray zone is a green light for Putin,” said Daniel Fried, a former U.S. Putin occupied parts of Ukraine in 2014 and then tried to capture the capital in 2022 with his invasion. Since then, little action has been taken toward that goal. The U.S., Russia and Ukraine are not among the more than 120 countries that have not signed a convention outlawing the use of the bombs.Īs for Ukraine’s possible entry into NATO, the alliance said in 2008 that Kyiv eventually would become a member. More than two-thirds of alliance members have banned the weapon because it has a track record for causing many civilian casualties.
The latest test of NATO solidarity came Friday with what Biden said was a “difficult decision” to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine. He noted Germany’s shift toward a more robust defense policy as well as an increase in military spending in other countries. “So I think the invasion has strengthened NATO - exactly the opposite of what Putin anticipated.” “I think it’s appropriate to look at all the success,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky told The Associated Press. NATO members have poured military hardware into Ukraine to help with its counteroffensive, and Finland ended a history of nonalignment to become NATO’s 31st member. By some measures, the war in Ukraine has reinvigorated NATO, which was created at the beginning of the Cold War as a bulwark against Moscow.
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