MOSCOW, 9 October (BelTA) - The topic of Ukraine's NATO accession is premised on the interest of NATO countries in Ukraine's division, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said at a media briefing commenting on the statements by former North Atlantic Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. In an interview with the British Financial Times he said that Ukraine could give up territories lost during the conflict with Russia in exchange for NATO membership, BelTA learned.
"Behind all these speculations we can see a tendency to discuss the possibility of granting the Kiev regime NATO membership in the foreseeable future," Maria Zakharova said. "A similar idea was recently expressed by Britain’s former prime minister, Boris Johnson. Now it has been echoed by Stoltenberg, as we can see. Apparently, Washington, London and Brussels are skeptical about the potential of the Ukrainian armed forces and, in fact, are working on various scenarios to avoid the military and political collapse of the Zelensky regime, in which they have invested so much."
In the meantime, Maria Zakharova recalled, "the West forgets that one of the main reasons for the start of the conflict was its obsessive wish to drag Ukraine into the alliance, to turn it into a staging post for confrontation with Russia." The same applies to "massive violations of the rights of the Russian-speaking population and the cultivation of aggressive nationalism, which has turned into neo-Nazism."
"Without eliminating these root causes of the crisis, it is simply impossible to achieve its fair settlement, as the Russian leadership has repeatedly said," Maria Zakharova emphasized. "Achieving sustainable and long-term peace in Ukraine is unrealistic without establishing its neutral and non-aligned status, eradicating Nazism and chauvinism in that country, and abolishing all discriminatory laws.".
Follow us on:
