{"id":7447,"date":"2026-07-08T23:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/7447\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T23:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:19:15","slug":"russia-denounces-nato-decision-to-provide-military-aid-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/7447\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia denounces NATO decision to provide military aid to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine for bilateral talks at Be\u015ftepe Presidential Compound during the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey.Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Russia denounced NATO\u2019s decisions at a summit in Turkey on Wednesday, saying they could have catastrophic consequences, after the alliance announced military aid to Ukraine and reaffirmed members\u2019 commitment to collective defence.<\/p>\n

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said NATO\u2019s priorities remained unchanged: \u201cthe militarization of the European continent, the focus on building up defence capabilities, preparation for an armed conflict with Russia, and, of course, aid to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a pity, because if NATO strategists had stopped and thought for a moment, they might not have made such irresponsible decisions that could lead to a catastrophe not just for the alliance, but for the whole world,\u201d Zakharova said in a statement on her ministry\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

Trump grants Ukraine licence to manufacture Patriot missiles<\/a><\/p>\n

NATO members at the summit pledged \u20ac70 billion in military assistance to Ukraine for 2026.<\/p>\n

They reaffirmed their \u201cironclad commitment\u201d to collective defence under the alliance\u2019s Article 5 pact in a summit declaration and unveiled arms deals worth at least $50 billion USD.<\/p>\n

In her comments, Zakharova said \u201ccracks\u201d between the United States and its NATO partners \u201chave not gone anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAgainst this backdrop, the Americans do not hide their disappointment with the North Atlantic bloc,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue with Greenland is not being resolved according to the American scenario. There is also resentment that alliance members, as Washington sees it, did not act in a supportive way when the United States needed their backing.\u201d<\/p>\n

NATO Secretary Genera Mark Rutte, in an interview with Reuters, said disputes between U.S. President Donald Trump and other NATO leaders showed the alliance\u2019s democratic strength and should serve as a lesson for Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say to Putin: You should have some more discussions yourself, out in the open,\u201d Rutte told Reuters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine for bilateral…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[107,90,108,80,78,109,46,77,97,98,93,79,76,103,105,102,96,88,120,81,82,95,91,92,85,110,86,115,116,118,113,117,111,114,83,100,101,50,99,112,89,104,106,94,87,84,119],"class_list":["post-7447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}