Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said a $40-billion package of US aid to Ukraine may be approved on Wednesday, 18 May.
Ukraine policy dogs Germany’s Social Democrats
McConnell and three other Senate Republicans met in Kyiv on Saturday, 14 May, with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. They’ll travel to Helsinki on Monday, 16 May, for talks with Finland’s president.Sweden’s Social Democrats have decided to back Nato membership in an historic decision that paves the way to join neighbouring FinlandThe party, which for decades has been a strong opponent of Swedish membership in any military alliance, shifted its stance after Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Stoltenberg said he was confident Turkey’s concerns , which came to the forefront on Friday, 13 May, would be addressed without delaying the membership procedure. “A quick and swift process” is still expected, he said. “All this has drastically changed the security situation in the European and Transatlantic sphere, and it requires far-reaching strategic answers,” she said.Nato allies are expected to highlight Russia’s behaviour as a direct threat in an upcoming strategic document, where they’ll also address how to better support neighbouring countries that are vulnerable to coercion and aggression, according to a Nato official.
Swedes and Finns are increasingly in favour of joining the Nato defence bloc after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, adding pressure on the countries’ leaders to change long-standing policies of military non-alignment.Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Berlin, where Blinken is attending the Nato meeting. Blinken relayed details of the latest round of US security assistance for Ukraine.
Ukraine’s defence of Azovstal is still tying down Russian combat troops and inflicting casualties, according to the Institute for the Study of War, which said ground, air and heavy artillery assaults continued on Saturday, 14 May. Ukrainian officials are attempting a negotiated evacuation of medics and injured servicemen.
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