The Latest Breaking News on Turkey's Parliament Set To Debate Sweden NATO Bid

World’s most powerful military alliance has 31 members. Sweden is poised to make it 32, and Ukraine wants in as well.

NATO leaders have wrapped up a two-day summit with pledges of long-term support for Ukraine but no offer of membership yet

When Nato held its annual summit in Brussels two years ago, all 31 presidents and prime ministers of the alliance’s member states dutifully showed up, but their hearts weren’t really in it. France’s President Emmanuel Macron had publicly declared Nato “brain-dead” in 2019, and nobody could find a good reason…

A rift has emerged between Nato and Ukraine as Volodymyr Zelenskyy labelled the alliance’s failure to provide an unambiguous pathway for the country to join Nato “unprecedented and absurd”.

The Prime Minister met his counterpart privately to discuss plans to provide Kyiv with long-term security guarantees.

As a “welcomed guest” at the latest NATO summit in Lithuania, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins had a front-row seat for debates over Ukrainian membership, the role of countries outside NATO’s traditional geographic boundaries, the ongoing threat of China, military spending and an accelerating nuclear arms race.

Turkey made a surprise pledge to drop its opposition to Sweden joining NATO, paving the way for the Nordic country to become a member of the Western military alliance

Volodymyr Zelensky said the delay was providing Russia with the ‘motivation to continue its terror’.

In a surprise move, Turkey has ended its veto on Sweden joining Nato, thereby removing all the barriers to its membership of the military alliance.

Leaders of military alliance sign off on declaration that does not give Ukraine firm membership timetable

The hero leader is due to hold showdown talks with coalition leaders at their summit in Lithuanian capital Vilnius tomorrow while battle rages in his homeland.