“An invitation for Ukraine to join the NATO is necessary for our survival“insisted the president of the country, Volodymyr Zelenskythis Sunday when receiving the new president of the European Council in kyiv, Antonio Costa; already the new head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, on his first day in office. Zelensky would even be willing to temporarily give up the regions occupied by Russia if the Alliance’s security guarantee covers the rest of Ukrainian territory.
However, NATO once again turns a deaf ear to Zelensky’s request to urgently enter the club, which for him is the only security guarantee capable of stopping Russia. The United States and Germany maintain their total rejection of this solution because they consider that would lead the allies to an all-out war against Moscow.
At the meeting of NATO foreign ministers that began this Tuesday in Brussels, the new secretary general, Mark Ruttehas once again delayed the Ukrainian request. “What Ukraine needs is more military aid and fewer discussions about what a peace process could look like“, he alleged. Support for kyiv and the renewal of NATO’s strategy towards Russia They are the main issues on the agenda of the foreign ministers.
“And that is what we will focus on in the next two days: how to bring more military aid to Ukraine, more missile defense to Ukraine and better coordination of everything we are doing,” insisted the former prime minister of the Netherlands. NATO is launching a new command center in Wiesbaden, Germany, to coordinate security assistance and training for Ukraine.
Will there be an invitation for Ukraine or any timetable for its accession? “As you know, the allies agree that Ukraine’s future lies in NATO. And during the Washington summit we agreed that It is an irreversible path towards NATO“answers Rutte, who has not given any additional details about the calendar or conditions.
“What we need to focus on is what is needed now. And what is needed now is to ensure that military aid reaches Ukraine, because it is crucial for them, if they decide to engage in talks with the Russians one day, do it from a position of strength“, the head of the Alliance has justified.
“The meeting over the next two days will largely focus on how to ensure that Ukraine, whenever it decides to engage in peace talks, do it from a position of strength. And to get there, it is crucial that more military aid be sent to Ukraine,” Rutte insisted at another point in his press conference, in which he thanked the new shipments announced by the United States, Germany, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania or Norway.
NATO Secretary General He did not want to reveal what the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, told himon his recent visit to Mar-a-Lago. During the campaign, the Republican candidate has said that he will end the war in Ukraine immediately when he comes to power and his team has suggested that he could cut off military aid to Zelensky to force him to negotiate with Vladimir Putin.
Rutte’s message to Trump was that a Russian victory in Ukraine would also put the security of the United States at risk. “When we talk about Ukraine, we should discuss the fact that Russia and China, but also Iran and North Korea, are working together and Russia is paying them for this. For example, with missile technology, which the North Koreans then use to threaten not only us, and South Korea or Japan, but also the United States,” warns the Secretary General.
“So all of this is connecting. So whenever we reach an agreement on Ukraine, it has to be a good agreement (…) This is crucial for our defense, not only here in Europe, but also in the United States,” Rutte insisted.
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