The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that Western countries made a number of mistakes in relations with the Russian Federation, including a promise to Kiev to join the North Atlantic Alliance.
“I am ready to admit that we made a number of mistakes and that we lost the possibility of Russia’s rapprochement with the West. There are moments that we could do better, there are things that we proposed and then could not implement, such as, for example, the promise that Ukraine and Georgia will become part of NATO… I think it’s a mistake to make promises that you can’t keep,” Borrell said in an interview with TF1 TV channel, RIA Novosti reports.
Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that he “has lost interest in the issue of Kyiv’s entry into the North Atlantic Alliance.” According to him, NATO is not ready to accept Kyiv into its ranks, as it is afraid of contradictory things and confrontation with Russia.