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Ukraine-NATO ties gradually strengthened during the 1990s and 2000s, and Ukraine aimed to eventually join the alliance. Although co-operating with NATO, Ukraine remained a neutral country. After it was attacked by Russia in 2014, Ukraine has increasingly sought NATO membership. [2]
In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Munich Security Conference, if Ukraine can't join NATO, it would need to double its army to 1.5 million to fend off Russia's invasion.
A European defense official told CNN that while many in NATO don’t necessarily believe Ukraine can join the alliance given the political realities with Russia, they also don’t say so publicly ...
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 ...
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
During the 2008 NATO summit held in Bucharest and against the urging of United States President George W. Bush, both Georgia and Ukraine accession into NATO was blocked by both Nicolas Sarkozy led France and Angela Merkel led Germany, who based Germany's decision against Ukraine joining NATO upon Germany maintaining its dependence upon ...
Ukraine's relationship with NATO began with the NATO–Ukraine Action Plan in 2002. [135] In 2010, under President Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine re-affirmed its non-aligned status and renounced aspirations of joining NATO. [136] During the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, Russia occupied Crimea and supported armed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
If Ukraine is not in NATO, it. ... Kyiv, which has been locked in all-out war with invading Russian forces since February 2022, has said that joining NATO would be the strongest, cheapest way to ...