The UK said it would send more tank ammunition as well as dozens of additional combat and reconnaissance vehicles. Ukraine has also welcomed a host of pledges from individual NATO countries for military aid. He praised the decision to scrap the requirement for an 'action plan' for Ukraine's membership, which will speed up the process once the conditions for membership have been met. It is for this reason that people like foreign minister Kuleba found reasons to be cheerful. They cannot afford to alienate individual leaders – or public opinion in Europe and North American that sustains these leaders. They want the benefits of NATO membership – but they are dealing with their main suppliers of advanced weaponry, ammunition and military training. Zelenskyy and his government are clearly treading a difficult line. Striking a more conciliatory tone, Zelenskyy said that was "logical" and "understandable" to delay membership because, "nobody is willing to have a world war". This sense of grievance was verbalised by the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy yesterday when he described the lack of progress on membership as "unprecedented" and "absurd." However, he toned down his language this afternoon in a news conference with NATO's secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg.
"If we weren't here where would the Russians be?" they ask. It is a opinion often expressed to by Ukrainian soldiers at – or near - the front line. In other words, it is already doing NATO's job.
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If Ukraine was a full member of NATO, other members would be obligated to come to its aid.įrom the Ukrainian viewpoint, it is already functioning as a key part of the Western security apparatus as they attempt to repel the Russians from eastern Ukraine. President Biden for one has voiced his worries about escalating the crisis with Russia. In an interview with 'Radio Liberty', Kuleba fingered the US and Germany as the countries who have displayed the most caution when it came to Ukrainian membership. Their position is that some conditions must be met," the minister said. That is, we have fundamentally different positions here. That is, when will the conditions be fulfilled? What are the conditions? Who should formulate them? What are they? Once again, our position is that all conditions exist for inviting Ukraine to become a member of NATO. Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, complained about the lack of clarity. In response, some Ukrainians have asked if NATO could tell them what those conditions are. The joint communique stated that Ukraine would be invited to join the alliance, "when allies agree and conditions are met". There were signs of frustration today as Ukrainian demands for a timeline or 'roadmap' on NATO membership were essentially sidestepped in Lithuania. Analysis by John Sparks, international correspondent
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