With the heads of countries descending on Vilnius today for two days of talks, Russia's war in Ukraine - and the prospect of the war-torn nation joining the security alliance - is at the top of the agenda. sees membership as the ultimate deterrent against Russia attacking Ukraine again, after it illegally annexed Crimea in 2014 and launched a full-scale invasion in February last year.But and the Kremlin have long claimed that NATO's expansion eastwards was one of the factors that triggered the decision to invade in the first place.
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