Biden says G7 support for Ukraine will ‘continue well into the future’
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President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the G7 countries’ joint statement of support for Ukraine will “make it clear” that support for Kiev from the world’s largest democracies “will continue well into the future”.
At the Nato summit in Vilnius, following the inaugural session of the Nato-Ukraine Council, Mr Biden said Western nations are making long-term commitments to Ukraine’s security assistance while Ukraine continues a process that will soon lead to full membership of the Nato-Ukraine Council becomes. be a block of 31.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the outcome of the NATO summit was a “significant success for Ukraine,” adding that it brought with it new security opportunities.
Following the summit, Mr. Biden delivered a searing, groundbreaking speech at Vilnius University, in which he told the 10,000-strong crowd that the US and its allies will not back down in support of Ukraine, while simultaneously supporting Lithuania and the rest Baltic states for their own historic freedom struggles.
“The defense of liberty is not a day’s work or a year’s work. It is the calling of our life. Any times. We are armed for the battle ahead. Our unity will not falter, I promise you.”
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What is stopping Ukraine from joining NATO?
While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has received support and vague assurances from NATO leaders in Vilnius this week, he ultimately returns home with no clear pledge that his country will join the club anytime soon.
Instead, the alliance leaders said they would remove obstacles in Ukraine’s path to accession so that it could join more quickly once the war with Russia was over.
For many, this argument provides the Russian president with an excuse to prolong the war that President Vladimir Putin is said to have started to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.
But if Ukraine joins NATO in the middle of a war, then Russia is at war with the entire NATO alliance.
At the heart of this puzzle is Article 5 – NATO’s Common Defense Guarantee, which states that an attack on one member is an attack on all members.
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