Ukraine Pushes for NATO Membership as Gas Talks Commence
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Ukraine began the process to strengthen ties with NATO and said it wanted to join the alliance in the “short term” after President Petro Poroshenko declared the worst of its separatist war was over.
While Ukraine has received no sign it will be able to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization any time soon, its push risks exacerbating the worst standoff between Russia and its Cold War foes since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Sporadic fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government troops in the eastern Donetsk region of the former Soviet republic is threatening a shaky cease-fire reached three weeks ago.