- Ukrainian parliament has taken steps towards closer ties with the West
- The decision to begin seeking NATO membership is likely to anger Russia
- Russia said it was 'counterproductive' for stability in Ukraine's east
The Ukrainian parliament has renounced Ukraine's 'non-aligned' status with the aim of
eventually joining NATO - a move angering Moscow which views the Western
alliance's eastward expansion as a threat to its own security.
Kiev first announced its intention of seeking the protection
of NATO membership in August following what it deemed the open
participation of Russia's military during the separatist war in its eastern provinces.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Ukraine's
renunciation of its neutral military and political status a
'counterproductive' step that would only boost tensions around
the crisis in the east.
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