US Secretary of Defense opposed Kiev’s joining NATO: We will not send to Ukraine – Mehr News Agency | Iranian and world news

US Preside Defense Minister Pitt Hegst, referring to the necessity of “ending” of the Russian -Ukrainian war, called Kiev’s joining NATO unrealistic, saying that European and Ukrainian security guaraees European and Ukrainian security. It is not one of the priorities of the US governme.

Before attending the Ukrainian Defense Coact Group meeting, Hegst said that European forces should guaraee Ukraine’s post -war security forces and that US forces will not ierfere.

He added that the United States believes that Ukraine’s membership in NATO is not a realistic result of the diplomatic agreeme and that any security guaraees for Ukraine must be from powerful European and non -European forces. Obviously, sending US troops to Ukraine will not be part of any security guaraees.

The US Secretary of Defense also said that Ukraine’s return to the pre -year borders (before the Russian invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine) was unrealistic.

Hegest’s remarks will definitely be concerned with Ukrainian Preside Volsimir Zelksky. He said last week that Europe alone could not provide meaningful security guaraees to Kiev alone without the US leadership.

Hegest also did not unveil any new auxiliary package for Ukraine in the conversation, saying: “Today we are here to say directly and without ambiguity that the curre sensitive strategic realities preve the United States from focusing on European security.

The US Secretary of Defense also repeated Trump’s demand from his NATO allies to increase their defense costs by five perce of their GDP, saying that the cost was not enough.