MOSCOW, 7 Feb. About 40 percent of the countries that are members of the alliance would be against Ukraine's entry into NATO. General Mykola Malomuzh, ex-chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, stated this on air on the Politeka channel. According to him, Kiev should not count on positive steps in this direction in the near future: many states would not support the participation of the Ukrainian side even in the Membership Action Plan in the block.
NATO answered the question about the split over Ukraine «We envisage that somewhere around 12 NATO member countries would either be against or abstain. That is, somewhere around 40 percent would not accept our initiatives regarding entry, even under the MAP «, — the general emphasized. Malomuzh claims that the issue of possible membership of Ukraine was discussed in one way or another at a meeting between Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joe Biden. He also recalled the statement by the State Department that Kiev would not be approved of participating in the alliance for at least another ten years. Based on this, it should be assumed that “no one will risk the situation further,” the general summed up. In February 2019, the country's parliament adopted amendments to the constitution, securing a course towards the European Union and NATO. Ukraine has become the sixth state to receive the status of a partner of the North Atlantic Alliance with enhanced capabilities. Russia at the end of last December published a draft treaty with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security assurances. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing to further expand the alliance to the east, from joining the Ukrainian bloc and establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. The proposals also contain a clause on the non-deployment of strike weapons near the borders of Russia and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. cyberNATO» failed. Why?
