NATO Secretary General Jens StoltenbergBRUSSELS, 16 Mar NATO remains open to new members and will respect any decision of Ukraine to join or not join the alliance, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said following a meeting of the heads of the North Atlantic bloc's defense ministries. Members of NATO remains to further decide on this issue,» he said, answering a relevant question from journalists. NATOKiev does not hide the fact that he wants to drag the US and NATO into the conflict in Ukraine, constantly urging the West to introduce a no-fly zone in the country. Western leaders talk about the impossibility of closing the sky because of the risk of a third world war, but continue to supply weapons to Kiev. On Tuesday, Volodymyr Zelensky said it was time to recognize that Ukraine would not become a member of NATO. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DNR and LNR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. sending NATO peacekeepers to Ukraine
