MOSCOW, 8 Sep. Senator Oleksiy Pushkov commented on his Telegram channel on the statement of former US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst about the country's prospects for joining NATO. According to the diplomat, in the next ten years Kiev will not be able to become part of the alliance due to contradictions on this issue within the organization itself. He explained that the fault is the reluctance of NATO members to «irritate» Russia.
The Kremlin called Ukraine's accession to NATO dangerous for Russia Pushkov, in turn, noted that this is not the only reason for such rejection of Ukraine. with Russia, «the politician emphasized, noting that» Herbst's recognition is another small but bad signal for Zelensky. » Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen previously stressed that Ukraine will need to achieve criteria that will take a long time to implement. Experts believe that this will not happen in the next 20 years. After a meeting with American President Joe Biden, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said that Washington nevertheless supports Kiev's North Atlantic aspirations.
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