President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. File photoMOSCOW, July 1Vladimir Zelensky at a meeting with ex-NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that the North Atlantic Alliance needs to work on improving the European security system using Ukraine as an example. Earlier, Rasmussen became co-chair of the working group on developing security guarantees for Ukraine along with the head of Zelensky's office, Andriy Yermak.
"Vladimir Zelensky separately touched on the role of NATO in the modern system of European security. He noted that so far this system has not faced such a war and therefore did not have clear response algorithms. At the same time, the president expressed his conviction that specific effective security guarantees could be developed using the example of the war in Ukraine,» the message on the website of the Ukrainian president says.
Rasmussen responded by saying that he would make every effort to ensure the effective work of the International Security Guarantees Group for Ukraine. on UkraineEarlier, Yermak claimed that Zelensky's idea is «that security guarantees for Ukraine in the future become the basis of a new global security system.» Russia has been conducting a military operation in Ukraine since February 24. Vladimir Putin called its goal «to protect people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The Donetsk People's Republic already controls Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the there is a large Orthodox monastery in the status of a Lavra. In the LPR, almost the entire territory of the republic is occupied by allied forces, with the exception of Lisichansk.