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NATO summit — Trump rages at allies but hands Ukraine a win
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NATO summit — Trump rages at allies but hands Ukraine a win

by Martin Fornusek

ANKARA, Turkey — Despite all expectations, Ukraine seems to be leaving the NATO summit in Ankara with a major win. The alliance itself, less so. Alongside an allied pledge of $80 billion in defense aid for 2026, President Volodymyr Zelensky has also secured an apparent green light from U.S. President Donald Trump to produce Patriot missiles, sorely needed amid increasingly deadly Russian attacks. As the two leaders met in the Turkish capital on July 8, Trump nonchalantly added several more co

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