Kyiv will be recognised as a 'contributor' to the alliance's security
Ukraine is set to take centre stage at the NATO summit in Ankara, where allies will formally recognise the country not only as a recipient of Western support but as a contributor to the alliance’s security.
The shift will come as part of a new multi-annual financial pledge, a showcase for Kyiv’s rapidly expanding defence industry and an invitation to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, to a dinner of NATO leaders on Tuesday evening.
He is expected to leave Ankara with a new summit pledge in a declaration by allies to provide €70 billion in military assistance to Ukraine this year and again next year.
The pledge was one of the remaining sticking points that diplomats hammered out on Friday during their third and final round of negotiations for the summit declaration to be endorsed by all 32 allies.
