NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg reaffirmed the military alliance's commitment to Ukraine on Tuesday, saying that the war-torn nation will one day become a member of the world's largest security organization.
Stoltenberg's remarks came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his NATO counterparts gathered in Romania to drum up urgently needed support for Ukraine aimed at ensuring that Moscow fails to defeat Ukraine as it bombards energy infrastructure.
In essence, Stoltenberg repeated a vow made by NATO in Bucharest in 2008 -- in the same sprawling Palace of the Parliament where the foreign ministers are meeting this week -- that Ukraine, and also Georgia, would join the alliance one day. Even so, Ukraine will not join NATO anytime soon. With the Crimean Peninsula annexed, and Russian troops and pro-Moscow separatists holding parts of the south and east, it's not clear what Ukraine's borders would even look like. Many of NATO's 30 allies believe the focus now must be on defeating Russia.
The meeting in Romania -- which shares NATO's longest land border with Ukraine -- is likely to see NATO make fresh pledges of nonlethal support to Ukraine: fuel, generators, medical supplies, winter equipment and drone-jamming devices.
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