KIEV: Ukraine took a historic step toward NATO yesterday 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 non-aligned status-a classification given to states such as Switzerland which refuse to join military alliances and thus play no part in wars.
President Petro Poroshenko had vowed to put Ukraine under Western military protection after winning an election called in the wake of the February ouster in Kiev of a Moscow-backed president. “Ukraine’s fight for its independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty has …read more
Source: Kuwait Times
