Servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine during NATO training at a training ground in the Lviv regionMOSCOW, Jan 18 > Ukraine's entry into the North Atlantic Alliance now looks like an «unrealistic path», Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute for Policy Analysis and Management, said on the Nash TV channel. «No one takes us there and will not take it. Moreover, we can only join NATO 
Caribbean crisis 2.0: what are the US military afraid of? Previously, Bortnik spoke about the prospects for Kiev to join the alliance. So, the other day the expert noted that he sees no real prospects for Ukraine in this direction. According to the political scientist, the country's «technical» entry into NATO can only happen in the event of an «extreme aggravation of relations between Russia and the West.» 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 legal guarantees from Western partners to refuse further expansion of the alliance to the east, from joining the bloc of Ukraine and from creating military bases in post-Soviet countries. The country's course in the EU and NATO is fixed in the constitution of Ukraine. However, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, emphasized that in order for Kiev to join, it would need to meet a number of criteria, which would take a long time. In Ukraine, they wanted to become a «new Japan» for the United States
