EUROPEATION OF THE EUROPEATION of the European Union Kaja Kallas said on Thursday that NATO offers the best security guarantee for Ukraine. Thus objected to the statements of US President Donald Trump, which the possibility of joining the Alliance for Kiev rejected. According to the AFP report, TASR writes about it.
“Why are we in NATO? This is because we are afraid of Russia. And the only thing that really works – the only security warranty that works – is NATO umbrella, ” said Kallas. In an interview for AFP EU diplomacy chief She also warned that Europe would not be able to help Ukraine with a possible peace agreement if it was not part of the negotiations. It responded to interviews between Washington and Moscow, which have so far been carried out without the presence of representatives of Ukraine and Europe.
Trump said on Wednesday that Kiev can “forget” to join NATO. “I think this is probably the reason why (war in Ukraine) started,” He added and reiterated the statements of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who justified the Russian invasion three years ago by the potential membership of Ukraine in NATO.
“These allegations are totally false,” she said Kallas. “My question is why we should give Russia what it wants, moreover, to what it has already done – it occurred to Ukraine, annexed the territory, occupied the territory, and now offer something else,” added.
“Take yourself in the US, after September 11 (2001), they would sit with Osama bin Laden and told him, ‘Okay, what else do you want?’ I think it’s unimaginable, ” explained the head of European diplomacy. Russia insists that the US promised not to expand NATO at the end of the Cold War, recalls AFP.
