Ukraine's accession to NATO – is an invitation to the Alliance necessary – UNIAN
The Foreign Ministry stated that Ukraine will not accept any substitutes for full membership in NATO: “Having the bitter experience of the Budapest Memorandum behind us, we will not accept any alternatives, surrogates or substitutes for Ukraine’s full membership in NATO. Inviting Ukraine to NATO will now become an effective counteraction to Russian blackmail and “will deprive the Kremlin of illusions about the possibility of preventing Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration.”
If this statement is translated from diplomatic language, it looks like this: all your bridges, scaffolding, and ajar doors are nonsense, which in practice is worth nothing. The point is that from the failure to implement the Budapest Memorandum on security guarantees for Ukraine in connection with its acquisition of non-nuclear status, concluded on December 5, 1994 between Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain and the United States (and later…
