{"id":4366,"date":"2025-06-26T17:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=4366"},"modified":"2025-06-28T02:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T02:26:38","slug":"nato-summit-grim-sign-for-kiev-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/nato-summit-grim-sign-for-kiev-nyt\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO summit \u2018grim sign\u2019 for Kiev \u2013 NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US-led bloc is no longer prioritizing Ukraine, the American outlet has reported<\/strong><\/p>\n

The recent NATO summit signaled a bleak outlook for Kiev\u2019s hopes of sustained Western support as the US-led bloc turned its attention toward US President Donald Trump, The New York Times has reported, in a feature-style review of the gathering.<\/p>\n

NATO chief\u00a0Mark Rutte, a former Dutch prime minister, hosting the event at The Hague, pledged continued support for what he described as Ukraine\u2019s \u201cirreversible path to membership.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

However Kiev\u2019s aspirations were notably absent from the final summit communiqu\u00e9, which offered only a brief mention of the bloc\u2019s \u201cenduring sovereign commitments to provide support to Ukraine,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who was invited to the two-day summit, was \u201cnot feted as in years past,\u201d<\/em> the newspaper noted. Nor was he \u201cthe center of attention\u201d<\/em> anymore, it added. A meeting between Trump and Zelensky on the sidelines of the event also failed to produce any \u201cspecific promises,\u201d<\/em> the outlet wrote.<\/p>\n

After the meeting, which lasted roughly 50 minutes, Trump denied that the two had discussed a potential ceasefire between Kiev and Moscow, contradicting an earlier statement by Zelensky.<\/p>\n

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\u201dUkraine? What\u2019s Ukraine?\u201d Michael John Williams, a former NATO adviser,\u00a0exclaimed to the NYT. \u201cThe Europeans were saying how committed they are to Ukraine\u2026 But there was also really an attempt to keep controversial issues off the table. Ukraine wasn\u2019t the front and center discussion it has been.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0The summit was \u201cchoreographed\u201d<\/em> to address \u201cthe security interests of NATO allies \u2013 and then comes Ukraine,\u201d<\/em> Liana Fix, a Europe expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, told NYT on Wednesday, published in a separate piece.<\/p>\n

\u201dThere was no meaningful deliverable for Ukraine,\u201d<\/em> added Torrey Taussig, a former Biden-era Europe director at the National Security Council.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s meeting marked a sharp departure from last year\u2019s summit, where Ukraine\u2019s NATO membership was on the agenda. This time, NATO members committed only to increasing defense spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, in response to what they called a \u201clong-term threat posed by Russia to Euro-Atlantic security.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Rutte told reporters simply that \u201cour aim is to keep Ukraine in the fight today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US-led bloc is no longer prioritizing Ukraine, the American outlet has reported The recent NATO summit signaled a bleak outlook for Kiev\u2019s hopes of sustained Western support as the US-led bloc turned its attention toward US President Donald Trump, The New York Times has reported, in a feature-style review of the gathering. NATO chief\u00a0Mark…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}