Political ties between Ukraine and NATO are also expected to be upgraded through a new NATO-Ukraine Council, or NUC. Read More: Why the New NATO-Ukraine Defense Council Falls Shortĭuring Stoltenberg’s press conference on Friday, he said that he expects NATO to agree to a new, multi-year program of assistance for Ukraine. “The members may well agree on a package of transitional security measures,” Smith says. That might be a condition that will be set by Russia before it agrees to bring the conflict to a close,” McCrisken says.Įither way, the summit is expected to lead to further military pledges for Ukraine. “One condition for ending the war might be that Ukraine doesn’t become a member of NATO. foreign policy at the University of Warwick. Those plans, however, could also be complicated if the end of the war comes down to negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, according to Trevor McCrisken, a professor of U.S. “NATO can’t be in a situation where they offer a firm prospect of membership to a country which is in the state of war, which has nearly 20% of its territory under occupation by a hostile foreign power,” says Martin Smith, a senior lecturer at the Department of Defense and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, England.īut it is possible that member states could secure compromise language at the Vilnius summit that suggests Ukraine is getting closer to membership.Īhead of the NATO summit, Stoltenberg said in a press conference on Friday that he expects the defense alliance to reaffirm that Ukraine will become a member. “President Zelensky has a very clear expectation, we discussed this.”īut while NATO countries may have agreed that Ukraine will eventually become a member, what comes between now and then is matter of major disagreement among Western allies. “All NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member,” Jen Stoltenberg, secretary general of NATO, said at a press conference in April.
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