Ukraine will not agree to any alternatives other than NATO membership, although it will not receive an invitation soon. Ukraine will not agree to any other options, such as surrogates or substitutes for full NATO membership, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stressed on the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Budapest ... #BudapestMemorandum #NATO #SecurityGuarantees #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly urges member countries to provide Ukraine with missiles possessing ranges of 1,000-5,500 kilometers and admission to the Alliance. The NATO Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution calling on the governments of the Alliance member states to provide Ukraine with medium-range missiles as a deterrent and weapon of self-defense. T... #LongRangeMissiles #NATO #NATOexpansion #NATOParliamentaryAssembly #NorthKorea #UkraineNATO
Zelenskyy will present his Victory Plan at the Ramstein meeting on October 12 and propose concrete steps toward NATO membership. “We will present the Victory Plan – clear, concrete steps to a fair end to the war. The determination of our partners and the strengthening of Ukraine is what can stop Russian aggression,”... #JoeBiden #PeacePlan #Ramstein #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Ukraine will become the second strongest European NATO member. Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Baiba Braže, said that Ukraine will have NATO’s second strongest army on the European continent after joining th... #AndriiSybiha #BaibaBraže #GabrieliusLandsbergis #NATOexpansion #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine #WarsawSecurityForum
The new NATO Secretary, General Rutte, will maintain Stoltenberg’s priorities during his tenure. Incoming NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will need all of the coalition-building skills he honed as prime minister of the Netherlands to keep the Western alliance together amid the war in Ukraine, f... #JensStoltenberg #MarkRutte #NATO #UkraineNATO
Warsaw offers Kyiv more than €100M in loans to repair military equipment, will contribute to the Czech initiative, and will work on transferring fighter jets. The Polish government has offered Ukraine an intergovernmental loan of more than €100M for the purchase and repair of Polish equipment used by the Ukrainian military at Polish defense plants, the head... #JATEC #KrabHowitzer #MIG29 #MilitaryAidforUkraine #Poland #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
The President of the Czech Republic believes that Ukraine can join NATO with temporarily occupied territories. In an interview, the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, said: “I believe that full restoration of control over the entire territory is not necessary for Ukraine’s membership in N... #UkraineNATO #Ukrainewar
NATO countries are ready to accept Ukraine into the Alliance, but there is a lot of work ahead. “All allies agree that Ukraine will become a member of NATO,” but it is still too early to say when this will happen, the head of the organization, Jens Stoltenberg, said at the NATO summi... #JensStoltenberg #NATOsummit #SupportUkraine #UkraineAccessionToNATO #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
Orban met with the leader of Turkey, which is balancing between good relations with Russia and supplying weapons to Ukraine. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that he is continuing his “peacekeeping mission” and met with the President of Turkey in Washington. He called Istanbul an “indispensa... #NATOsummit #PeaceInUkraine #RecepTayyipErdoğan #Turkey #UkraineNATO #VictorOrban
Britain promises to provide Ukraine with £3B of military support a year as long as it needs. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit that the new government will stick to its plans to spend at least £3B every year on military support for Ukraine “... #Brimstone #GreatBritain #KeirStarmer #NATOsummit #UkraineNATO #Zelenskyy
The US and Germany will strengthen Ukrainian air defense capabilities. US Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith noted that the summit will feature fresh news on air defense for Ukraine. “We will have a financial commitment, according to which both Ukraine and Moscow wi... #Germany #JulianneSmith #NATOsummit #PatriotSystems #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
The upcoming NATO Summit promises to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense. US President Joe Biden will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington to discuss further support of Ukraine, the White House announced. “... #JensStoltenberg #JoeBiden #NATOsummit #SouthKorea #UkraineNATO #Washington #Zelenskyy
Stoltenberg expects Ukraine’s membership in NATO during the next ten years and details the Alliance’s aid to Kyiv. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hopes that Ukraine will join the defense alliance within the next decade. “I hope that Ukraine will become an ally,” said Stoltenberg, who is leavin... #JensStoltenberg #NATO #NATOexpansion #NATOsummit #UkraineAccessionToNATO #UkraineNATO
Ukraine membership in NATO threatens the Alliance with war. Dozens of foreign policy experts urged members of the North Atlantic Alliance to avoid the issue of Ukraine’s promotion to NATO membership at the summit in Washington on July 9-11. They warn tha... #AssociationwithNATO #NATO #NATOsummit #RussianAggression #SupportUkraine #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
NATO will send a clear message about Ukraine’s membership prospects in Washington. At the upcoming Alliance summit in Washington, NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg said, there will be “no dates” regarding Ukraine’s membership. “I expect that we will reach an ag... #JensStoltenberg #JohnKirby #NATOsummit #UkraineAccessionToNATO #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
Ukraine’s victory in the war is a basic requirement for its membership in NATO. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg noted: “I expect that the allies will make an important announcement in the run-up to the Washington summit and at the summit itself regarding the supply ... #JensStoltenberg #UkraineAccessionToNATO #UkraineNATO #VictoryUkraine #WarinUkraine
President Biden: Peace in Ukraine does not mean NATO membership. In an interview with TIME, US President Joe Biden said that peace in Ukraine means ensuring that “Russia never, never, never, never occupies Ukraine”. But this does not mean NATO membershi... #JoeBiden #SupportUkraine #UkraineNATO #USmilitaryAid #WarinUkraine
NATO will present a new €40B annual financing scheme for Ukraine and “build a bridge” to membership. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes in the approval of the Ukraine’s new defense financing system by the Alliance members at the NATO summit. After the ministerial meeting in Prague, dedi... #AnthonyBlinken #JensStoltenberg #NATOsummit #SupportUkraine #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
What does Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine and the Russian Federation envisage? The America First Policy Institute, a pro-Donald Trump organization, has released a book outlining a national security strategy aimed at Trump winning the US presidential election. The book offers som... #DonaldTrump #PeaceInUkraine #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #SanctionsAgainstRussia #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
NATO is informally discussing ending the war and Ukraine’s membership in the Alliance in exchange for territorial concessions. According to La Republica, experts are considering such a scenario and so far, it has not been evaluated from a political point of view. At the same time, all decisions related to the war in Ukraine a... #DonaldTrump #JensStoltenberg #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #TerritorialConcessions #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Ukraine has signed bilateral security agreements with Denmark, Italy, and Canada. The agreement with Canada stipulates defense support for Ukraine for a year, a principled position on supporting Ukraine’s membership in NATO, specific opportunities for cooperation in defense p... #SecurityGuarantees #SupportUkraine #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
Ukraine signed security agreements with France and Germany, followed by Denmark and Norway. During his working visit to France, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron signed a 10-year agreement on cooperation in security, which is a continuation of the Vilnius Dec... #EmmanuelMacron #JonasGahrStore #MetteFrederiksen #MunichSecurityConference #SecurityAgreement #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The head of the Munich Conference explains how to force Russia to stop the war. The head of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusgen, believes that it is possible to start negotiations with the Kremlin only if there are serious security guarantees, the best of which woul... #ChristophHeusgen #MunichSecurityConference #PeaceInUkraine #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
The US and Germany do not want to rush Ukraine’s accession to NATO. Ukraine and its Eastern European allies want a NATO invitation as soon as possible, but Washington and Berlin are more cautious. In addition to the US and Germany, other Western NATO representatives a... #NATO #UkraineAccessionToNATO #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
Allies promise to support Ukraine and are convinced that the country should become a NATO member for global security. A joint statement of the Ukraine-NATO Interparliamentary Council was adopted in Brussels, which confirms the NATO allies’ readiness to support Ukraine to victory in the war against the aggressor count... #AnthonyBlinken #GlobalSecurity #SupportUkraine #UkraineNATO #UkraineNATOCouncil #WarinUkraine
Zelenskyy met with Jens Stoltenberg, Antony Blinken, and the world’s largest businesses in Davos. The Ukrainian president discussed the situation on the battlefield with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and emphasized the importance of further strengthening the Ukrainian air defense system.... #AnthonyBlinken #Davos2024 #JensStoltenberg #NATOsummit #UkraineNATO #Zelenskyy
NATO-Ukraine Council meeting in Brussels: Ukraine receives recommendations on reforms that are necessary to join the Alliance. According to Jens Stoltenberg, NATO foreign ministers discussed Ukraine’s path to NATO entry and agreed that Kyiv would become a member of the Alliance. “So far, we have provided recommendations... #JensStoltenberg #NATOstandards #UkraineNATO #UkraineNATOCouncil
Ukraine approves a plan for reforms necessary to join NATO. The Commission on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration approved the draft of the adapted Annual National Program (ANP) for 2024. This document defines the criteria for Ukraine’s eligibility fo... #AssociationwithNATO #OlhaStefanishyna #ReformsinUkraine #UkraineNATO
Stoltenberg: Ukraine will become a NATO member after reforms are completed and the end of the war. Ukraine will become a member of NATO, but first, it must carry out reforms determined by the member states, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg before a meeting of the North Atlantic Council.... #AssociationwithNATO #JensStoltenberg #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
More Ukrainians want to be a NATO member than to join the EU. However, the absolute majority of Ukrainians support joining both the EU and NATO. However, people currently consider joining the Alliance as a higher priority, according to the Kyiv Institute of Soci... #EuropeanIntegration #ReformsinUkraine #SociologicalSurvey #UkraineEU #UkraineNATO
NATO is not discussing Ukraine’s membership in exchange for territory, and they want to approve the Ukraine-NATO Council Work Plan by the end of the year. The head of Ukraine’s mission to NATO, Nataliia Galibarenko, claims that there are no discussions at NATO headquarters – neither official nor unofficial – regarding the granting of N... #AssociationwithNATO #NataliiaGalibarenko #UkraineNATO #UkraineNATOCouncil #WarinUkraine
Ukraine reacted harshly to NATO’s provocative statement regarding territorial concessions. After NATO official Stian Jensen suggested that Ukraine could gain NATO membership and end the war in exchange for ceding territory to Russia, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Ol... #DavydArahamia #MykhailoPodolyak #OleksiyDanilov #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
Western diplomats: Ukraine needs a roadmap to join NATO as quickly as possible. Forty-six Western experts, military personnel, and diplomats including former US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Bigen and Special Representative of the US State Department for Ukraine, Kurt Volker,... #AssociationwithNATO #KurtVolker #NATOsummitVilnius #StephenBigen #UkraineNATO
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday that Ukrainian forces have proceeded in a very precise and well-organized way so far in the war. Speaking at a joint press conference with Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, Scholz said he “never expected that everything would change from one day to the next” but added the Ukrain... #MarcelCiolacu #OlafScholz #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
The head of the British Ministry of Defense advocates Ukraine’s simplified accession to NATO. British Defense Minister Ben Wallace believes that Ukraine should be able to “skip” the NATO Membership Action Plan on its way to joining the Alliance, reported SKY News. “I think we... #AssociationwithNATO #BenWallace #JamesCleverley #NATOsummitVilnius #UkraineNATO
Duda calls for Ukraine’s NATO membership, while Scholz and Macron only discuss security guarantees. “Ukraine is waiting for a clear signal, a clear prospect of membership,” Polish President Andrzej Duda said at a meeting in Paris. He hopes the July NATO summit in Vilnius will bring Ukrai... #AndrzejDuda #EmmanuelMacron #NatoMembership #OlafScholz #SecurityGuarantees #UkraineNATO
Parliamentary committees from 19 NATO countries support Ukraine’s membership in the Alliance. The heads of the Foreign Affairs Committees from the Alliance member countries and Ukraine signed a corresponding joint statement, said Vice-Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Olena Kondratiuk. ̶... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummit #OlenaKondratiuk #UkraineNATO
The Czech Republic supports Ukraine’s membership in NATO as soon as possible, and Ukraine expects NATO to support Ukraine’s application. The Czech Republic’s senate adopted a resolution in favor of Ukraine joining NATO as quickly as possible. The document states that Ukraine demonstrates determination and readiness to defend Euro-Atla... #AnnalenaBaerbock #CatherineColonna #CzechRepublicSenate #RuslanStefanchuk #UkraineNATO
Ukraine and NATO have updated their cooperation format in innovation. During a meeting in Brussels, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation Mykhailo Fedorov and NATO Deputy Secretary General David van Weel launched the High-Level Innovation Dialogue between... #Brave1 #DavidVanWeel #DefenseTechnology #MykhailoFedorov #UkraineNATO
Stoltenberg: Ukraine cannot join NATO during the war. During the German Marshall Fund Brussels Forum, NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine’s accession to the North Atlantic Alliance while the war continues is impossible. “The main question ... #AssociationwithNATO #JensStoltenberg #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
Ukraine’s defense purchases will be made according to NATO standards. As reported by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, a single national Defense Procurement Agency will procure weapons and military equipment. Within the limits of the provided funds, the agency will ma... #NATOstandards #OleksiyReznikov #UkraineDefensePurchases #UkraineNATO
Ukraine is preparing a political and operational package for discussion at the NATO summit in Vilnius. Ukrainian Ambassador to NATO Nataliia Galibarenko explained that the political package envisages Ukraine’s desire to bring political relations with the Alliance to a new institutional basis. It ... #AssociationwithNATO #NataliiaGalibarenko #NATOstandards #UkraineNATO
Scholz feels that Ukraine will not join NATO in the foreseeable future but will receive Western weapons after the war. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke about the prospects of Ukraine’s membership in NATO in an interview with Welt. “In Bucharest in 2008, NATO adopted decisions that formulated a long-term... #OlafScholz #SecurityGuarantees #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
The Ukrainian government voiced its expectations from the Vilnius NATO summit. According to Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanyshyna, it is crucial to get assurances concerning the readiness of NATO member states to support Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Peace Formula. In general, i... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummit #OlhaStefanishyna #UkraineNATO
Ukraine will not receive an official invitation to join NATO at the Alliance summit in Vilnius. According to WP, there is a consensus on this position among the 31 NATO countries, but there is not absolute unity. Eastern European countries are insisting on setting clear obligations in terms of a... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummit #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
Zelenskyy has met with the German president and chancellor and seeks to form an air coalition. During a meeting with his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President Zelenskyy noted that Ukraine is counting on Germany’s assistance in supporting Ukraine’s application to join NATO... #FighterJetsToUkraine #FrankWalterSteinmeier #OlafScholz #SupportUkraine #UkraineNATO #Zelenskyy
The largest group in the European Parliament insists on Ukraine’s accession to NATO. Europe’s largest pan-European party association, the European People’s Party (EPP), has adopted a position document in which it calls on NATO to lay the groundwork for Kyiv’s entry i... #AssociationwithNATO #EuropeanPeopleParty #NATOsummit #UkraineNATO
The US and Germany are delaying concrete commitments regarding Ukraine’s accession to NATO. As RND writes, the two countries recently made it clear behind closed doors that they do not want to take on any obligations that would significantly surpass the vague NATO declaration of 2008. Instea... #JensStoltenberg #UkraineNATO #Zelenskyy
By the end of the year, Ukraine will have implemented about 35% of NATO standards. According to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov, almost 18% have already been implemented. The minister drew attention to the fact that there are more than 1,200 NATO standards, but ... #NATOstandards #OleksiyReznikov #UkraineNATO
Even a nuclear strike would not deter 89% of Ukrainians from their willingness to continue the war. Even if Russia launches a nuclear attack on Ukraine, 89% of Ukrainians want to continue the fight, reported Tagesspiegel. As well, for 85% of respondents, the possible withdrawal of Russia to the Feb... #PeaceInUkraine #SociologicalSurvey #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
