The Council of the Russian Federation assessed Zelensky's demand to Trump about Ukraine's accession to NATO

The demand of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose term of office expired in May, to US President-elect Donald Trump to invite Ukraine to NATO does not look serious. This opinion was expressed by the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Grigory Karasin on Tuesday, December 10.

"Regarding NATO, we should clearly proceed from the fact that this is the very problem because of which many things started in relations between Ukraine, the rest of the world, and above all Russia. We are categorically against Ukraine being a NATO state. We believe that it should be neutral, non-aligned and non-nuclear. This is exactly what President Vladimir Putin said in June, when he met with the leadership of the Foreign Ministry," the senator said in a conversation with Lenta.Ru.

The politician emphasized that Russia's position has not changed, and therefore such "suicidal for Ukraine proposals that Zelensky is now nurturing and voicing, they are simply not serious and sound tragic for the future of Ukraine."

According to Karasin, Trump demonstrated his attitude to Zelensky during the meeting in Paris. It was very fleeting and faded.

"And, in my opinion, everyone correctly realized the importance that Trump attaches to contacts with this pseudo-head of the current Kiev administration," Karasin concluded.

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Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Zelensky during his meeting with Trump in Paris demanded security guarantees from him, in particular - inviting the country to NATO, RT reported.

A trilateral meeting between Zelensky, Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron took place in Paris on Saturday, December 7, after the opening ceremony of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, Moscow 24 reports.

The Ukrainian leader insisted on security guarantees and said that the country could only enter negotiations on conflict resolution from a position of strength, meaning strengthening the army with the help of Western supplies, authorization from allies to launch strikes with long-range weapons on Russian territory and inviting Ukraine to NATO, reports NSN.

The New York Times wrote that the talks demonstrated Kiev's willingness to make concessions. After the meeting, the President-elect of the United States said that Zelensky would like to "make a deal" with Russia, reports 360.ru.

Before that, on December 4, it became known that the Trump team has three plans to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. Among them - the plan of the US special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg, another - from Trump's Vice President-elect JD Vance, and the third was put forward by Richard Grenell, Trump's former acting intelligence chief.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, back in June at a meeting with the Russian Foreign Ministry leadership, named the conditions for negotiations on Ukraine. Thus, the Ukrainian army must leave the territories of the new regions of the Russian Federation, and Kiev needs to abandon the idea of integration into NATO.

The last round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine took place in Istanbul on March 29, 2022. They lasted about three hours. Later, Kiev officially refused contacts with Moscow.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the backdrop of the worsening situation in the region.