Bloomberg pointed to Zelensky's signal of readiness to give up territories

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (whose term in office expired on May 20) has sent a serious signal by declaring his readiness to give up the country's former territories in order to make peace. The Bloomberg news agency writes about it on November 30.

"This is the strongest signal to date that the Ukrainian leader is ready to end the conflict without the return of all territories," the report noted.

The agency recalls that a day earlier Zelensky said in an interview with the British TV channel Sky News that he could agree to a ceasefire and give up some territories in exchange for Ukraine's membership in NATO.

"If we want to stop the hot stage of the <war operation>, we should take the territory of Ukraine under the NATO umbrella, which is under our control," Bloomberg quoted him as saying.

So far, however, no country has offered Ukraine such a solution.

"NATO members are resisting Ukraine's bid to join the military alliance anytime soon, as its mutual defense provisions would require them to send their forces to repel any future attacks," the media outlet states.

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After Zelensky's statement on November 29, former U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida, said that Ukraine's admission to NATO would be a terrible idea.

Earlier, on November 23, Bloomberg reported that the administration of current U.S. President Joe Biden was considering the option of publicly urging NATO countries to invite Ukraine to the alliance after Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. However, this step was abandoned due to the low hope for success.

The director of the Center for European Information, Nikolay Topornin, told Izvestiya on 21 November that a number of NATO member states were wary of granting membership to Ukraine. In particular, Berlin, Washington and Paris do not support the idea of admitting Kiev to the bloc. The fact is that Ukraine does not fully meet the necessary Western standards and the alliance countries do not want to become parties to the conflict.

Ukraine applied to join NATO on an accelerated basis on September 30, 2022. Zelenskyy said at the time that the country was already in the alliance and met its standards.