President Biden is in Finland — NATO’s latest member state — for a summit with Nordic leaders. It follows a two-day NATO summit this week, which “put to relaxation any doubts” about Ukraine’s future membership in NATO, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned in his nightly tackle, regardless of the shortage of a concrete timeline that Zelensky had earlier described as “absurd.” Kyiv as a substitute obtained guarantees of long-term army assist geared toward “defending Ukraine now and deterring Russian aggression sooner or later.”
In Russia, Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov claimed he was pressured to retire after highlighting issues with the military combating in Ukraine, in accordance with a voice message revealed by a Russian lawmaker. “Within the title of you and our fallen fight buddies, I had no proper to lie, so I outlined all the issues current within the military,” Popov mentioned. He cited an absence of artillery and “mass deaths and accidents” of troopers. As such, senior officers “sensed hazard in me and promptly, in in the future, made up an order and removed me,” he mentioned. The Washington Publish couldn’t independently confirm his claims.
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Evaluation from our correspondents
Zelensky’s ‘guilt-based’ diplomacy leaves its mark on NATO summit: On the primary day of this week’s NATO summit, there was dismay and disgruntlement amongst Ukrainian representatives. On the second day, there was mollification from the West. By the tip of the two-day assembly, Zelensky welcomed the West’s guarantees of extra weapons and assurances that Ukraine would in all probability be admitted to NATO as soon as the conflict ends.
There’s a clear sample in Zelensky’s conduct, Ishaan Tharoor writes.
Jeremy Shapiro, director of analysis on the European Council on Overseas Relations, informed Tharoor that Zelensky “has adopted a guilt-based strategy to diplomacy.”
“‘You by no means write, you by no means name, you by no means ship F-16s’ has lengthy summarized [Zelensky’s] strategy to getting what he desires from the West and the U.S.,” Shapiro mentioned.
Natalia Abbakumova contributed to this report.