KYIV, Ukraine —An offer of NATO membership to territory under Kyiv’s control would end “the hot stage of the war” in Ukraine, but any proposal to join the military alliance should be extended to all parts of the country that fall under internationally recognized...
Ukraine's new state agency for nonlethal military procurement is an example of the type of reform that the country hopes will clear the path toward NATO.
The prospect of Ukraine joining NATO has long been anathema to Putin, and it was one of his stated motivations for seizing Crimea. He offered last week to order an immediate cease-fire if Ukraine renounced plans to join the alliance, an offer that was dismissed by Ukraine. A weekend confe...
"NATO will offer some kind of 'bridge' for Ukraine to join, but membership is unlikely until major combat operations there subside or end," William Courtney, a retired U.S. ambassador and adjunct senior fellow at the RAND Corporation, told Xinhua. Yet, more than two years into the Ukraine...
Ukraine’s EU prospects also offer an example of how a country at war can begin the formal process of joining an organization that has a mutual security arrangement. The EU has its own mutual defense clause (Article 42.7 TEU) based on the ideas of NATO’s Article 5. Yet, this mutual de...
For the U.S. and its Western allies, a successful and independent Ukraine was a potent potential symbol that Russia's time as a powerful empire had come to an end. During the early 2000s, President George W. Bush...
At the Bucharest Summit in 2008, NATO welcomed Ukraine’s candidacy, pledging that the country would eventually become a member, while declining to offer a precise timetable. When asked by ABC about a Russian demand that Ukraine recognizes as independent two separatist pro-Russian regions in easte...
Unlike the West, Russia has shown that it is willing to fight over Ukraine’s future strategic direction. The offer for Ukraine to joinNATOis likely to give Russia a reason to continue the war. If Ukraine begins the process of accession upon the war ending, Moscow will be encouraged to bl...
Representatives for Vance did not make him available for comment, and he has yet to offer additional details. Grenell, Trump's former ambassador to Germany, advocated the creation of "autonomous zones" in eastern Ukraine during a Bloomberg roundtable in July...
Stoltenberg’s visit comes at a crucial time in the conflict as Kyiv pleads for more western weaponry to push on with a spring counter-offensive. Ukraine has also stepped up its demands for Nato to offer concrete security guarantees and a tangible pathway to join the alliance,despite reluctance...