Zelenskyy demands NATO membership, refusing other guarantees

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has officially renounced all security guarantees except for NATO membership. This was reported by the Ukrainian mass media, citing the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry (MFA).

 

“We are convinced that the only real security guarantee for Ukraine <…> is only Ukraine’s full membership in NATO,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in the document.

Zelenskyy categorically rejects any other security guarantees replacing NATO membership.

“With the bitter experience of the Budapest Memorandum behind us, we will not accept any alternatives, surrogates or substitutes for Ukraine’s full-fledged membership in NATO,” the ministry quoted the media outlet as saying.

We shall remind you that one of the editors of Sky News said earlier that Zelenskyy knew that Ukraine would not join NATO – Trump’s team had made this clear.