“Turkey’s announcement to drop objections to Sweden’s NATO accession is a significant step forward in addressing the concerns I and many members of Congress have related to approving significant pending weapons packages for Turkey,” House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Gregory Meeks said in a statement to CNN. And British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that Kyiv's allies ' want to see gratitude” from Ukraine for their support while recalling how he told Ukrainian officials during a visit to Kyiv in June of 2022 that the UK was not “Amazon” when he was given a list of weapons demands. Meanwhile, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the US not to grow weary of Ukraine’s grinding battle against Russia.Ī key US House Foreign Affairs Committee member on Wednesday acknowledged progress from Turkey after its decision to support Sweden’s NATO bid – and suggested it could yield progress on a sale of F-16s to Ankara - but a key US Senate Foreign Relations Committee member said that a deal is not yet sealed. Military assistance: Estonia's prime minister defended her support for the United States' decision to provide Ukraine with controversial cluster bombs.The Russian foreign ministry, for its part, said the NATO summit demonstrated that the alliance has ' finally returned to the Cold War schemes.” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would 'be glad to act as a mediator' between Russia and Ukraine if the two countries agreed to such a proposition. In his nightly address after the summit, President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed optimism about Ukraine’s path to becoming a member of NATO. However, there was still no invitation for Ukraine to join the alliance.

NATO summit takeaways: US President Joe Biden and G7 leaders unveiled a substantial show of support for Ukraine at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, offering a joint declaration of support for Kyiv aimed at bolstering the war-torn country’s military capability.

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