The day after Russia invaded Ukraine, the leaders of NATO’s 30 member countries held an emergency summit to address the launch of what would become the biggest land war in Europe since 1945.
FILE - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, center left, convenes NATO leaders, both in person and on screen, for a virtual summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. The day after Russia invaded Ukraine, the leaders of NATOs 30 member countries convened an emergency virtual summit to address what they described as the gravest threat to Euro-Atlantic security in decades the launch of what would become the biggest land war in Europe since 1945.
NATO, as an organization, was wary of being dragged into all-out war with nuclear-armed Russia. Technically it still is, but a year on the Ukraine Contact Defense Group this week held talks at NATO’s Brussels headquarters, where the alliance's leaders, ministers and envoys usually sit.“Ukraine has to win this war,” said Hanno Pevkur, the defense minister of Estonia, a Baltic country that shares a border and a long history with Russia and is extremely wary of Putin’s intentions.
In the year since the Russians invaded, the U.S. has provided more than $27 billion in military help to Ukraine. Two senior defense officials estimated this week that other allies have stumped up more than $19 billion worth, with over $1 billion each from Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland.For the nationalist government of Hungary, a NATO ally, there is no doubt about what this means.
“Neither NATO nor NATO allies are party to the conflict. What we do ... is to provide support to Ukraine. Ukraine is defending itself,” he said. “The type of support that we provide to Ukraine has evolved as the war has evolved.” Perhaps one of the most important changes sparked by the war has been the realization that NATO’s collective defense guarantee — the pledge that an attack on any ally will be met with a response from them all — is no longer an abstract promise.
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