Alina Polyakova: NATO summit special series – Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrives before an EU summit meeting on June 28, 2016 at the European Union headquarters in Brussels.
Ukraine will likely be at the center of the NATO summit in Warsaw. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014 has brought renewed importance to NATO’s core mission. Vulnerable NATO member states, particularly the Baltics and Poland, are looking east at President Vladimir Putin’s growing aspirations to destabilize countries in Russia’s near abroad and beyond, using conventional and non-conventional tools of warfare.
