MOSCOW, November 12. /TASS/. Ukraine doesn’t need any initiatives to cede part of its territory in exchange for some guarantees and NATO membership, it needs a comprehensive military assistance, Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, said on Sunday.
The Guardian reported on Saturday that NATO’s former Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen had said that NATO should invite Ukraine to join the alliance without the territories it no longer controls.
"I love (sarcasm) the occasional bizarre proposals for ‘resolving the conflict in Ukraine’. <…> For example, one can sometimes hear the marvelous suggestion that Ukraine could allegedly easily join NATO... piecemeal," he wrote on his X (formerly known as Twitter) account.
The only solution, in his words, is "large-scale ‘military/technological aid’ to Ukraine."
After the beginning of Russia’s special military operation, Ukraine’s Western partners have considerably increased weapons supplies to Kiev. However, it keeps on asking for more weapons and munitions. In recent time, the Western media have been raising the topic of the partners’ fatigue of the Ukrainian conflict, the widening gaps with Kiev amid the absence of actual breakthroughs in the combat zone and the need for further financial support for Ukraine’s economy.
Kiev meets such publications nervously but such statements are already heard from some of the Western politicians. Thus, head of Zelensky’s office, Andrey Yermak, said that the West has no right to be tired of the situation around Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that support for Ukraine is becoming a burden for the West, which is no longer capable of bearing it.