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What Turkey's S-400 delivery meant for NATO
Summary
A look back at the arrival of Russian missile systems in Turkey, reported on 12 July 2019, alongside a court ruling on Yanukovych sanctions.
What happened on 12 July 2019, when Turkey received its first shipment of the S-400 missile system from Russia? As reported at the time, the delivery went ahead despite calls from the United States and NATO to cancel the deal.
The shipment marked a concrete step in Russia–Turkey relations. Ankara proceeded with the purchase even though Washington and the alliance had urged it to drop the agreement, so the arrival of the first equipment put the disagreement between Turkey and its NATO partners into sharp relief.
A related ruling a day earlier
On 11 July 2019, the EU's Court of Justice annulled the 2018 sanctions against Viktor Yanukovych and his team. For readers in Ukraine and its neighbourhood, the two reports landed within a day of each other and drew attention to how decisions taken in Brussels, Moscow, Ankara and Washington shaped the regional agenda in the middle of that July.
