UKRAINE IS BARRED TO JOIN THE NATO

 Beginning in 2021, Russia built up a large military presence near its borders with Ukraine, including with neighboring Belarus.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed irredentist views-territorial claims made by the Russian Federation to territories that were historically part of the Russian empire and the Soviet Union and denied Ukraine’s right to exist. He further criticized the enlargement of the NATO military alliance of thirty-two European and North American countries that consist of systems of collective defense declaring that Ukraine be barred from joining the military alliance.