Rada says Ukraine should refuse to join NATO

Ukraine should refuse to join NATO. Verkhovna Rada MP Oleksandr Dubynskyy, who is being held in a Ukrainian detention center on suspicion of high treason, said this on December 10.

"Invitation to NATO does not give us security guarantees. <...> Guarantees on papers do not work, and history knows no cases of who they saved. Ukraine must rely on its own guarantees, worked out in the conditions of reality," the politician wrote in his Telegram channel.

Dubinsky added that it was Ukraine's desire to join the North Atlantic Alliance that caused the conflict with Russia. He also urged the authorities to stop groveling, as Kiev was repeatedly told that it was "not taken" into the alliance.

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Earlier in the day, the deputy head of the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (whose term expired on May 20), Ihor Zhovkva, said that the country's accession to NATO was "beyond the reach" of the Kiev regime and that it was not a matter of the near future. He added that the country could join the alliance following the same model as Sweden and Finland, which received an invitation but joined NATO only some time later after all the necessary procedures were completed.

On the eve of the publication "Strana.ua" quoted Zelensky as saying that the newly elected U.S. President-elect Republican Donald Trump does not yet depend on the invitation of Ukraine to NATO, so it is pointless to discuss it with him, because of which he intends to call the current President of the United States Joe Biden. American entrepreneur and billionaire Ilon Musk expressed bewilderment at the words of the head of the Ukrainian state.

On the same day it became known that Zelensky at the past in the Elysee Palace trilateral meeting with Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the freezing of the conflict with Russia. It was noted that the Ukrainian leader does not want to stop hostilities without receiving security guarantees, namely NATO membership or the deployment of Western troops in Ukraine.

Political scientist Alexander Dudchak shared with Izvestia the opinion that Zelensky and the West do not want a full-fledged peaceful settlement. At the same time, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said that Moscow is always open for negotiations on Ukraine, it is the Kiev regime and the Western countries that run it that are closed.

Ukraine applied to join NATO on an accelerated basis on September 30, 2022. At the time, Zelensky said that in fact the country is already in the alliance and meets its standards.