Ukrainian servicemen at the opening ceremony of the Ukrainian-NATO Rapid Trident-2020 military joint military exercisesBERLIN, 16 Jan. The decision on Ukraine's accession to NATO remains solely with the country itself and the member states of the alliance, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba. «I believe that this decision depends solely on Ukraine and 30 NATO member countries. Ukraine made its decision a long time ago. We are striving for NATO membership, as it is written in our constitution and in our national foreign policy strategy,» the diplomat said in an interview with the German publication Bild. country. Earlier, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, said that Ukraine is ready to join NATO, considers membership in the alliance a matter of life and death. Refrigerator and TV clashed in mortal combat At the end of 2021, Russia published drafts of a treaty with the United States and an agreement 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. After the 2014 coup d'état, Ukraine began to aggressively pursue a policy of integration with the West. In the wake of these expectations, changes were made to the country's constitution, which fixed the country's course towards the EU and NATO. Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said earlier that in order to join the alliance, Ukraine will need to achieve a number of criteria, the implementation of which will take a lot of time. Experts believe that Kiev will not be able to apply for NATO membership in the next 20 years.
