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Originally Posted by VRPdommy
Actually, Ukraine was never considered for future NATO enrollment, but some had mentioned it as wishful thinking, but putin feared it anyway.
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Yes they were/are
Expansion of NATO
Ukraine's present and future relationship with NATO has been politically divisive, and is part of a larger debate between Ukraine's political and cultural ties to both the European Union and Russia. It established ties to the alliance with a NATO–Ukraine Action Plan on 22 November 2002,[66][98] and joined NATO's Partnership for Peace initiative in February 2005.[99] Then in April 2005, Ukraine entered into the Intensified Dialogue programme with NATO.[50]
Ukrainian NATO relations
Ukraine applied to join the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) in 2008.[2][3]
Plans for NATO membership were shelved by Ukraine following the 2010 presidential election in which pro Putin Viktor Yanukovych, who preferred to keep the country non-aligned, was elected President.[4][5]
Amid the Euromaidan unrest, Yanukovych fled Ukraine in February 2014.[6]
The interim Yatsenyuk Government which came to power, initially said, with reference to the country's non-aligned status, that it had no plans to join NATO.[7] However,
following the Russian military invasion in Ukraine and parliamentary elections in October 2014, the new government made joining NATO a priority.[8]