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BOOSTING UKRAINE. A military band performs during the NATO 75th Anniversary Celebratory Event at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC, on Wednesday. Looking to refocus attention on US steadfastness, US President Joe Biden kicked off the summit by announcing Washington will provide Ukraine with an additional Patriot air defense system.
“The war will end with Ukraine remaining a free and independent country. Russia will not prevail,” Biden said at a ceremony in the room where NATO’s founding treaty was signed in 1949. Ukraine has for months been clamoring for seven additional Patriot systems to help protect against devastating Russian strikes two and a half years into the invasion.
As NATO sought to project unity and strength, doubts were swirling over the political future of the most powerful leader in the alliance. In a post on his Truth Social network, Trump insisted that he had “made NATO viable again” by forcing European countries to spend more on their own defenses during his term in office.He said he now wants Washington’s allies in Europe to stump up more to help Ukraine and ease the burden on the United States.
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