NATO and Ukrainian flags. Archive photoMOSCOW, 14 Jan. NATO will not allow Ukraine to join the alliance in the foreseeable future, writes the American newspaper New York Times. According to the authors of the article, US President Joe Biden and European leaders are not ready to take such a step.
"Although the administration Biden insists that she will not allow Moscow to encroach on Ukraine's aspirations to join NATO, Washington has no short-term plans to help the former Soviet republic get into the alliance", the publication says.
Publicists noted that Germany and France previously opposed Kiev's membership in the bloc, as a result of which other European members of the alliance took a wait-and-see attitude, since the need for consensus on the admission of a new member is an obstacle. «Biden has become more skeptical about expanding US military obligations,» observers say. Other possible reasons for this position The West in the material called the desire of the American president to see improvements in the political and legal systems in Ukraine, as well as not NATO’s unwillingness to worsen relations with Russia. At the end of 2021, Russia published draft treaties with the United States and agreements with NATO on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further expansion of NATO to the east, from joining the bloc of Ukraine and from creating military bases in post-Soviet countries. .jpg» />Ukraine was pointed to disappointing signals from NATO and the EU