Ukraine on Tuesday took a historic step toward NATO in a parliamentary vote certain to stoke Russia’s anger ahead of talks on ending the ex-Soviet state’s separatist war. Lawmakers in the government-controlled chamber overwhelmingly adopted a bill dropping Ukraine’s nonaligned status — a classification given to states such as Switzerland which refuse to join military […]
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