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‘Stalinist.’ Putin nemesis Alexei Navalny gets 19 more years in prison

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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. A Russian court on Friday sentenced opposition leader and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to an additional 19 years in a maximum-security prison, finding...

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Zelenskyy puts brave face on lackluster NATO membership signal

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VILNIUS — NATO didn’t give Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy what he was looking for, but on Wednesday he toned down his public anger over the alliance’s cautious stance on Kyiv’s membership bid. “Nobody is...

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How Ukraine lost its battle for a NATO membership commitment

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VILNIUS — Ukraine wanted this year’s NATO summit to end with a clear declaration that it will become an alliance member once the war ends, but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is leaving Lithuania without that...

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NATO membership offer falls short of Ukraine’s hopes

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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. VILNIUS — NATO leaders on Tuesday said they would invite Ukraine to join the alliance only when conditions are met and allies agree...

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Zelenskyy blasts ‘absurd’ draft text that hedges on Ukraine’s NATO membership timeline

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VILNIUS — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday denounced NATO negotiators for balking at offering Kyiv a concrete path to joining NATO in a draft communiqué being hammered out at an alliance summit. The...

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NATO skirts final call on Ukraine membership, leaving unity-testing fight for later

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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Vilnius is only the beginning. Ukraine wants NATO to give it a clear path to membership at this week’s summit in Lithuania. And...

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Ukraine NATO bid still unresolved as alliance leaders gather

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VILNIUS — It’s one problem down and one to go for the NATO alliance as leaders prepare to meet for a summit in the Lithuanian capital. Sweden’s troubled membership bid was accepted by Turkey’s...

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Western powers race to finish security pledges for Ukraine

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A small group of Western allies are engaged in “advanced” and “frantic, last-minute” negotiations to finalize a security assurance declaration for Ukraine ahead of this week’s NATO summit in Lithuania, according to four officials...

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After the riots, Macron must fix a broken France

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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — France is slowly catching its breath after days of large-scale urban unrest but a greater challenge looms for President Emmanuel Macron:...

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Kyiv not in NATO after Russia war would be ‘suicidal,’ Ukraine foreign minister says

admin June 29, 2023 0 Comment

Paul Ronzheimer is the deputy editor-in-chief of BILD and a senior journalist reporting for Axel Springer, the parent company of POLITICO. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned European allies that it would be “suicidal”...