VILNIUS, Lithuania ¨C NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine would get a ¡°positive message on the path to membership¡± on Tuesday, as leaders of the alliance meet to address the repercussions of Russia¡¯s invasion that brought war to their doorstep.
Divisions among the Western military alliance¡¯s 31 members on allowing Ukraine in mean there will not be a straightforward invitation for Kyiv to join, something the country¡¯s Soviet-era overlord Moscow says would threaten its national security.
But Stoltenberg said Kyiv would get more military aid and an easing of formal conditions to join in a new format of cooperation with the alliance, with the so-called NATO-Ukraine Council due to hold its first session on Wednesday.
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