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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]
“The road to NATO and the EU is a very long one," Zelensky said earlier this week, referencing the European Union, which Ukraine would also like to join. Of course, pressuring Ukraine to drop ...
Ukraine’s ambassador to NATO recently stated that the Ukrainian government would like a formal invitation to join the alliance before President Biden leaves office in January.
‘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
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.
The Ukraine Compact was built on an earlier a set of recommendations by former NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen called the Kyiv Security Compact. [7]The Kyiv Security Compact called for a new European security architecture that would guarantee Ukraine's security until the country would be able to join NATO.
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.
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 ...