NATO Should Openly Say They’re Not Accepting Us As They’re Scared Of Russia: Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Mumbai: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was afraid of Russia.
“NATO should either say now that they’re accepting us or openly say that they are not accepting us as they are scared of Russia, which is true,” The Kyiv Independent quoted Zelenskyy as saying, in an interview to Suspilne, a Ukrainian public broadcaster.
“And then, we need to calm down and say, okay, NATO member countries can provide us security guarantees without us being in NATO. That’s where the compromise exists, that’s where the end of the war is,” Zelenskyy said further.
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Experts cite Ukraine’s ambition to become a member of NATO as one of the factors that led Russian President Vladimir Putin to advance the ongoing offensive.
However, in recent times, it seems that Zelensky has accepted that his country will not be a member of a military alliance.
“I have cooled down on this question (joining NATO) a long time ago after realising that it is not prepared to accept Ukraine. The alliance is afraid of controversial things, and confrontation with Russia,” he told ABC News earlier this month.
Russia launched an invasion of its neighbour on February 24. President Vladimir Putin, who approved the offensive, has repeatedly described it as a ‘special military operation.’
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