Turkey on Monday agreed to confess Sweden to NATO, the alliance’s secretary basic stated, dropping months of opposition. The transfer got here on the eve of a NATO summit in Lithuania.
President Biden arrived in Lithuania on Monday for the talks, after a cease in Britain — a part of a visit centered partially on rallying the assist of U.S. allies for Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is about to attend the summit. Later this week, Biden is about to go to Finland, which not too long ago joined the alliance.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Wagner Group chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin in Moscow 5 days after his failed mutiny, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated at a information convention Monday. The three-hour assembly on June 29 between the 2 males — as soon as shut allies — was known as by Putin and attended by different Wagner commanders as nicely, Peskov stated. On the assembly, Putin shared his evaluation of “the occasions of June 24,” Peskov stated, referring to Wagner’s failed mutiny that took goal at Russian protection officers and threatened Putin’s grip on energy. Peskov didn’t give any additional particulars of Putin’s evaluation.
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A fateful summit 15 years in the past hangs over the NATO assembly in Vilnius: As NATO leaders convene this week in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, Ukrainian officers are demanding that their Western counterparts bear in mind the legacy of the summit in Bucharest, Ishaan Tharoor writes. Throughout the 2008 NATO assembly within the Romanian capital, former Soviet republics Georgia and Ukraine had been supplied little greater than a obscure dedication of getting into the alliance in some unspecified time in the future, with no established plan concerning how or when that might be achieved.
The halfhearted gesture mirrored division throughout the West on the time. On one facet, the administration of President George W. Bush, deeply unpopular overseas after the ruinous conflict in Iraq and eking out its ultimate yr in workplace, sought to supply the 2 nations a proper NATO “Membership Motion Plan.” On the opposite, a clutch of Western European governments, led by Germany, believed that neither Georgia nor Ukraine had been politically able to enter the alliance and seemed askance at initiatives that will “poke the bear” of the Kremlin.
Robyn Dixon contributed to this report.
