Ukraine has already formed the concept of the new security architecture and is ready to discuss it with international partners. In addition, Ukraine should consider various options for alliances.
Source: Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov
“As of today, at the level of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a concept has already been clearly formed, which was publicly presented as a “response within 24 hours”. It is communicated by our partners, primarily the United States, Great Britain, Turkey, Germany, and France, and it is not concealed from our other partners that we are ready to sit down at the negotiating table discussing a new security architecture.”
The Defense Minister believes that although Ukraine is not a NATO member de jure, it’s already in NATO de facto.
“If we say that Ukraine is not yet considered by NATO countries as a full-fledged member de jure because there must be a consensus among the NATO countries, we actually already become a de facto member of the Alliance. Because we are on the eastern flank, we are given NATO equipment, we have already mastered more than 300 NATO standards, etc. The only thing that worries our partners is Article 5, which they would be very much unwilling to apply if Ukraine became a member of the Alliance,” Reznikov emphasized.
He believes that today it is necessary to build new alliances with the countries of the Anglo-Saxon sector, as well as with Poland, the Baltic states, within the framework of the Three Seas Initiative, etc.
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