Brussels: NATO will have more enlargements in the future as it works hard on Ukraine’s accession to the alliance, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.
“I think there will be more enlargements, and we are working hard to get Ukraine in. We have all agreed that Ukraine will become a NATO ally, and we have helped to move Ukraine closer to NATO membership than ever before,” Stoltenberg told a NATO podcast.
Despite its prior pledges, NATO has progressively expanded eastward towards the Russian border, with Sweden and Finland becoming the bloc’s most recent members, citing regional insecurity sparked by the conflict in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that NATO’s expansion to include Ukraine would create a direct national security threat to Russia and that Moscow considers the non-aligned status of Ukraine to be extremely important to wipe out regional conflict.
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