{"id":1545816,"date":"2025-07-08T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1545816"},"modified":"2025-07-08T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:45:00","slug":"ukraine-says-talks-to-join-nato-becoming-very-toxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/ukraine-says-talks-to-join-nato-becoming-very-toxic\/1545816\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Says Talks To Join NATO Becoming ‘Very Toxic’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine Says Talks To Join NATO Becoming ‘Very Toxic’<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ukraine’s talks with NATO over a path to future membership have become increasingly tense and unproductive, according to Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Georgy Tikhy.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview, Tikhy\u00a0described<\/a> the discussions as “toxic” <\/strong>(something he said elsewhere weeks ago too)\u00a0– characterizing the negotiations as\u00a0repetitive and are no longer making progress<\/strong>. He also indicated there does not appear to be a chance for breakthrough anywhere on the horizon.<\/p>\n

NATO file image<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The foreign ministry official conveyed his assessment in a recent interview featured on the YouTube channel of journalist Aleksandr Notevsky.<\/p>\n

The words gained attention in Russian state media, which subsequently translated some of Tikhy’s key statements. “All the arguments and counterarguments have already been presented, and each new round of negotiations on Ukraine\u2019s accession to NATO goes in circles,”<\/strong> he said<\/a>. The discussions “have become, to put it simply, very toxic,” <\/strong>he emphasized.<\/p>\n

The NATO bloc has consistently held out that\u00a0“Ukraine’s future is in NATO.” Secretary-General Mark Rutte had at this summer’s annual NATO defense summit, hosted in The Hague, issued similarly optimistic words.<\/p>\n

However, what’s become clear is that waning American support for Ukraine’s military<\/strong>, and even President Trump’s stated desire to step back from leadership in NATO amid lack of fair cost-sharing among allies, has resulted in a broad decline in enthusiasm and momentum for Ukraine’s accession<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This is where things stand following NATO’s June summit<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It was therefore something of a relief that Nato\u2019s summit in The Hague produced a short\u00a0joint declaration<\/a>\u00a0on June 25 in which Russia was clearly named as a \u201clong-term threat \u2026 to Euro-Atlantic security\u201d<\/strong>. Member states restated \u201ctheir enduring sovereign commitments to provide support to Ukraine\u201d. While the summit declaration made no mention of future Nato membership for Ukraine, the fact that US president Donald Trump agreed to these two statements was widely seen as a success.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet, within a week of the summit, Washington\u00a0paused the delivery of critical weapons<\/a>\u00a0to Ukraine, including Patriot air defence missiles and long-range precision-strike rockets<\/strong>. The move was ostensibly in\u00a0response to depleting US stockpiles<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Simultaneously Russia has made steady\u00a0gains\u00a0along the almost 1,000km long frontline, and is even expanding operations into a central oblast, beyond the Donbass region.<\/p>\n

Georgy Tikhy, via\u00a0Interfax-Ukraine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Russian forces have also in the last days declared that it maintains full control over the whole region of the Luhansk, where Russian forces made quickest gains early on. The Kremlin has shown patience in this grinding war of attrition, though its advances have been costly in terms of manpower, as it taps reserves and continues recruitment efforts back home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 07\/08\/2025 – 02:45<\/span><\/p>\n

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