Donald Trump says he would “encourage” Russia to attack any Nato member that fails to pay its bills as part of the Western military alliance. He said he had once told a Nato leader he would not protect a nation behind on its payments if it came under attack from Russia, and would “encourage them...
Turkish MPs have ratified Sweden’s bid to join Nato in a long-delayed vote that represents a big step forward on the Nordic nation’s path to membership. Sweden applied to join in 2022 after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but Turkey withheld approval amid a row over what it called Sweden’s support to Kurdish separatists. Turkish...
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says only Ukraine will decide what kind of settlement to the war is acceptable. It comes after a senior NATO official suggested that Ukraine may have to give up territory to Russia. The post NATO says Ukraine will set terms for peace first appeared on Future Media. Source link
At the close of day one of the ongoing NATO summit in Lithuania, the alliance published a communique saying that it will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine “when allies agree and conditions are met,” but that the eventual inclusion of Ukraine into NATO will be a one step not two...
US President Joe Biden says he doesn’t think Ukraine is ready for NATO membership yet… and that the process should only begin after a peace agreement between Kyiv and Moscow. Ira Spitzer reports that the president’s comments came ahead of a NATO summit in Lithuania. The post Biden says Ukraine not yet ready for NATO...
A German lawmaker has accused NATO of fighting a proxy war against Russia by supplying military aid to Ukraine. BERLIN, July 10 — A German lawmaker has accused the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of fighting a proxy war against Russia by supplying military aid to Ukraine. “If we picture this conflict as a game...
NATO says it is closely following the movement of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force as well as their boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, following revelations that neither the private army’s fighters nor their leader had taken up exile in Belarus. When asked by Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor James Bays to comment on reports that Prigozhin had returned to the Russian...