MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. NATO’s Ankara summit pledges 140 billion euros in aid for Ukraine; the US no longer sees reason to maintain peace with Iran; and Europe, Ukraine look to cooperate on long-range missile development. These stories topped Thursday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.
Media: NATO summit pledges 140 billion euros in aid for Ukraine
The NATO summit in Ankara adopted a declaration that commits members to providing at least 70 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine in 2026 and 2027, Vedomosti writes.
NATO countries did not introduce any new ideas, as tools for further assistance to Ukraine are expected to be largely integrated into existing mechanisms, Yegor Sergeyev, a senior researcher at the Institute for International Studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, said. As before, the allies are counting on the continuation of the conflict.
The money the EU and NATO are discussing means supplies of equipment and ammunition rather than direct funding, Igor Shtrobak, a senior staff member at the Department for Military and Political Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute for US and Canadian Studies, emphasized. "However, the economic policy the European Union has pursued over the past years runs counter to the very essence of the classic idea of militarization. The policy includes social and economic support measures, long-term planning, and an energy security system. The current system looks like a short-term mobilization effort," Shtrobak pointed out.
