Zelenskyy criticises US for refusing to invite Ukraine to NATO

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy feels that the present US administration's and Republican leader Donald Trump's position on Ukraine's refusal to join NATO does not reflect the "policy of the world leaders."

Source: Zelenskyy in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer's Trudy Rubin, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Zelenskyy added that the White House under Joe Biden is not prepared to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the Alliance, whereas Trump claims that the war would not have occurred if NATO had not provoked it.

Quote: "Unfortunately, this is the policy of one step forward, two steps back. I don’t think this is the policy of world leaders. These are the very cautious steps of my de-miners in the minefield. If NATO is not ready to protect us, and to take us into the alliance, then we ask NATO to give us everything so we can protect ourselves," he added.

The Ukrainian president added that "if the United States is afraid to annoy Putin" – to which he attributed NATO’s reluctance to invite Ukraine – then it should provide Kyiv with enough funding to defend itself against Russian aggression.

"We ask our strategic partners to give us what would protect us: Patriots [anti-missile systems], a substantial number of F-16s, and the opportunity to use weapons [inside Russia]," Zelenskyy added. 

The US State Department recently indicated that they did not discuss any wording from the planned communiqué of the NATO summit in Washington, despite the press reporting on disagreements on how the section on Ukraine's membership would be drafted.

Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, stated that she hoped the NATO Washington Summit resolution would include the wording about the irreversibility of Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic track.

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