NATO explicitly stated that it would not send troops to Ukraine
On May 9, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg confirmed that this military alliance has no plans to send troops to Ukraine.
NATO affirmed that it will not participate directly in the conflict in Ukraine. (Source: Financial Times) In an interview with Italian newspaper Repubblica, Mr. Stoltenberg emphasized that the Ukrainian side did not ask the coalition to deploy troops but asked for increased support, ammunition and attack artillery. This alliance also has no plans to directly participate in the conflict in Ukraine.
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A day earlier, Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper quoted a document saying that the NATO Summit, scheduled to take place in Washington from July 9-11, could adopt a declaration to abandon direct intervention. into the conflict in Ukraine.
According to the Italian newspaper, the Summit is also expected to transfer the chairmanship of the Ukraine Defense Liaison Group from the US Secretary of Defense to the NATO Command in Brussels (Belgium), noting that the strategy in Ukraine is determined by The US handover will not change, but the "direction" is about to change.
Previously, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised that the 2024 NATO summit would be the "most ambitious" conference since the end of the Cold War. The international community is watching to see whether at this conference, leaders of NATO member countries will reach an agreement on admitting Ukraine.
However, in April, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference in Kiev that he did not expect to reach an agreement on Ukraine joining the alliance at the upcoming summit.
Regarding this issue, recently, Professor David Marples at the Department of Russian Studies at the University of Alberta (Canada) said that Ukraine will not be able to join NATO, despite optimistic assurances from Washington.
“NATO's policy on attracting new countries requires a unanimous decision by all members of the alliance,” Mr. Marples explained. Everyone knows that in NATO, there are some countries that are not willing to agree to admit Ukraine."
In addition to being unable to gain consensus from alliance members, Kiev's accession to NATO was also hindered by the conflict with Russia.
The Canadian expert noted that, before joining the bloc, any country must first end all confrontations related to its borders, so, "at this stage, Ukraine's accession to NATO in In the near future, it is not feasible.”
