This is not a rhetorical question – and indeed, why are Ukraine and Georgia not members of NATO to this date, when NATO made the historic decision on this matter 13 years ago at the Bucharest Summit? Before we try to answer the main questions underlined in the title of our article, it would be better to explain why Georgia and Ukraine should join the North Atlantic Alliance. [...] If we also look at the pre-war period, it becomes clear that Ukraine and Georgia have been actively working to achieve the goal of NATO membership since the 2000s, except for the period of Viktor Yanukovych's rule (when he first declared that Ukraine has no intention to either join NATO or acquire the MAP, while he managed to pass a decision in the Ukrainian Rada on granting non-alliance status to. [...] Ukraine, in turn, in addition to participating in military operations, actively involved its military capabilities in the implementation of NATO's response to the pandemic through the use of military transport aircraft by the Alliance. [...] The best illustration of this was just a few weeks ago the mobilization along the borders of Ukraine of more than 100 thousand Russian servicemen, along with weapons and equipment of all types and categories, although the international community, including the North Atlantic Alliance, strongly supported Ukraine, and warned Russia that it would pay a heavy price in the event of a full-scale militar. [...] At the same time, the NATO Summit will focus on the document prepared by a high-level group of experts on NATO transformation and adaptation, the withdrawal of coalition troops from Afghanistan and the new reality in Afghanistan, climate change, hybrid threats, and, of course, Russia, or more precisely the ways and means of containing it.
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