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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]
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. [165] From 2008, Russia began stating its opposition to Ukraine's membership.
It was a marked shift in tone from Zelenskyy’s complaints a day earlier, when he said it was “unprecedented and absurd” to avoid setting a timeline for Ukraine to join NATO.
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 ...
Allowing Ukraine to join NATO would help protect its democratic institutions, but could come at the cost of war. On the other hand, appeasing Putin could prove a problem of its own, leaving ...
NATO leaders agreed Tuesday to allow Ukraine to join “when allies agree and conditions are met,” the head of the military alliance said, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted the ...
After the invasion, NATO member states including Germany agreed to supply weapons but NATO itself did not. [14] [15] [16] NATO and its members also refused to send troops into Ukraine or to establish a no fly-zone in case this led to a larger-scale war. [17] [18] In 2022, Congress approved more than $112 billion in aid to Ukraine.