The alliance also pledges more aid to Ukraine, but China warns it to stop "provoking confrontation".

Nato members have pledged their support for an “irreversible path” to future membership for Ukraine, as well as more aid.

While a formal timeline for it to join the military alliance was not agreed at a summit in Washington DC, the military alliance’s 32 members said they had “unwavering” support for Ukraine’s war effort.

Nato has also announced further integration with Ukraine’s military and members have committed €40bn ($43.3bn, £33.7bn) in aid in the next year, including F-16 fighter jets and air defence support.

The bloc’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said: “Support to Ukraine is not charity - it is in our own security interest.”

  • irreticent@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’m not familiar with that so I looked it up and found this article:

    “Ukraine has long aspired to join NATO, but the alliance is not about to offer an invitation, due in part to Ukraine’s official corruption, shortcomings in its defense establishment, and its lack of control over its international borders.”

    Maybe opinions have changed amongst NATO decision makers.

    • AEsheron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Just vague memories from a random on the web. But IIRC, they were not welcome in part because of corruption of the previous leader’s administration, and one of the first things Zalensky did was crack down on that.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        5 months ago

        and one of the first things Zalensky did was crack down on that.

        Rather replace Russia-dependent corruption with more generalized corruption.