Flag of Ukraine on the building of the Verkhovna Rada in KievKYIV, Jan 14Ukraine will be able to join NATO only in the event of an extreme aggravation of relations between the Russian Federation and the West, the director of the Ukrainian Institute for Policy Analysis and Management Ruslan Bortnik believes.At the beginning of the week, a series of consultations were held between Russia, the United States and NATO on security guarantees — on January 9-10, the issue was discussed in Geneva at meetings with the United States, on January 12 during a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council and on January 13 at the OSCE site. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier that the United States promised to «put on paper» a response to Russia's proposals next week, a written response from NATO is also expected within a week. Russia, according to Lavrov, needs a specific response to each article of the documents put forward, the further actions of Moscow and the prospects for resuming negotiations will depend on the response of the United States and NATO. «I think that Ukraine has no prospects for joining NATO — only in the event of some extreme aggravation of relations between the Russian Federation and the West, a technical decision (on entry — ed.) can be made, but this is already in the event of a full-fledged war between Russia and the West or in the event of the collapse of Russia, the destruction of the Russian state. There are no real prospects for joining NATO today, «- Bortnik said in a commentary to RIA Novosti. At the same time, according to him, Kiev remains a litmus test in relations between the Russian Federation and the West. «Ukraine has a chance to intervene in this game, in the negotiation process, but for this it needs to think about a non-bloc status and some compromise proposals for a peaceful settlement in the Donbass. So far, Ukraine is being discussed without Ukraine, although not yet giving up its position,» — said Bortnik.Lavrov: security proposals are a package, not a menu to choose from how is not clear.» According to Bortnik, the NATO Secretary General was trying to show in this way that the alliance does not listen to Russia's statements, is not going to give up its open door principle and is not going to negotiate with the Russian Federation on changing the status of Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova for NATO. «Today, the parties (RF and NATO — ed.), it seems to me that once again they fought on the «red lines», as if on swords, and exchanged tough positions, and so far there has been no escalation or rapprochement between the parties. Moreover, this round of negotiations was nominally formal nature and after it we (Ukraine — ed.) again became closer to escalation than to resolving the situation (in Donbass — ed.),» Bortnik noted. According to him, after these negotiations, the Russian Federation and NATO will expect a written consolidating the lack of progress in rapprochement, as well as actions, «who will put what military, military-technical or diplomatic cards on the table.» At the end of 2021, Russia published draft treaties with the United States and agreements with NATO on security assurances. 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 establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. .jpg» />Western media hide the essence of negotiations with Russia
