Zelensky: We gave up membership in NATO
The preside of Ukraine said that the coury has abandoned its desire to join NATO.
According to RCO News Agency, this action represes a fundameal change for Ukraine; The war-torn European coury, which has long raised NATO membership as one of the coroversial issues in the resolution of the Ukraine crisis. However, Kyiv remains firmly opposed to handing over territory to Moscow.
According to the Reuters News agency, Ukrainian Preside Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during a conversation with reporters on WhatsApp on Sunday evening: “The security guaraees of the United States, Europe and other partners are a compromise on the part of Ukraine instead of NATO membership.”
“These are real security guaraees, and some partners from the United States and Europe did not support this path,” Zelenskiy said, saying that from the beginning, Ukraine’s desire was to join NATO.
“Therefore, today’s bilateral security guaraees between Ukraine and the United States, similar Article 5 guaraees to us from the United States, and security guaraees from our European partners as well as other couries, including Canada and Japan, are an opportunity to preve another Russian attack,” he added.
The Preside of Ukraine emphasized: “This is a compromise on our part and security guaraees should be legally binding.”
Russian Preside Vladimir Putin has repeatedly asked Ukraine to officially give up its ambitions to join NATO and withdraw its forces from Donbass.
Moscow has also said that Ukraine must be a “neutral coury” and that no NATO forces can be stationed in Ukraine.
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