{"id":18809,"date":"2023-04-21T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/natos-stoltenberg-reaffirms-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:55:37","slug":"natos-stoltenberg-reaffirms-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/natos-stoltenberg-reaffirms-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO&#8217;s Stoltenberg reaffirms Ukraine to eventually join alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAMSTEIN, Germany (Reuters) &#8211;     All NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will eventually become a member of the alliance but the main focus now is to ensure the country prevails against Russia, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of a meeting of the Ukraine defence contact group at Ramstein air base in Germany, he also told reporters that, once the war in Ukraine ends, Kyiv must have &#8220;the deterrence to prevent new attacks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten, editing by Mark Heinrich)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/natos-stoltenberg-reaffirms-ukraine\/nato-secretary-general-jens-stoltenberg-visits-ramstein-u-s-air-base\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K074-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K074-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMSTEIN, Germany (Reuters) &#8211; All NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will eventually become a member of the alliance but the main focus now is to ensure the country prevails against Russia, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday. Speaking ahead of a meeting of the Ukraine defence contact group at Ramstein air base in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-18809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K074-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18811,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809\/revisions\/18811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}