![]() The second was due to the political will of Kuchma and Poroshenko. The first was Russian unwillingness to respect Ukrainian sovereignty under Kuchma and military aggression against Ukraine under Poroshenko. In both cases two factors were behind these progressions. In fact, NATO-Ukrainian relations have only progressed under Presidents Leonid Kuchma (1994-2004) and Petro Poroshenko (2014-). The record of NATO-Ukrainian relations under five Ukrainian presidents is mixed. Cyprus, which has a northern enclave occupied by Turkey since the mid 1970s, was also allowed to join the EU. GDR – East Germany) for five decades, was a founding member of NATO and EU. ![]() At the same time, Germany, which was divided by the USSR (i.e. This is often used as a rebuttal against Ukraine’s drive to join NATO and the EU, as Russia occupies the Crimea and parts of the Donbas. It is often said that countries with parts of their territory under foreign control cannot join NATO or the EU. Jens Stoltenberg and Petro Poroshenko in 2017 Photo: Mykola Lazarenko (cc) Presidential administration of Ukraine
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