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Washington, October 17, 2024, 12:42 — Regnum News Agency. Ukraine needs clearly defined borders to join the North Atlantic Alliance. This was reported on October 16 by the Associated Press, citing diplomats from both countries.
"Ukraine's borders must be clearly defined before joining [NATO], so that there is no doubt about when the guarantees of Article 5 (the Alliance's collective defense principle. - Ed.) will come into force." The publication says:
According to the authors of the data, NATO has been considering the possibility of Ukraine's membership in the alliance for 16 years.
As reported by the Regnum agency, on October 16, the head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, presented the Rada with a "victory plan" for Ukraine. Its first point was inviting Ukraine to NATO, the second was "strengthening Ukraine's defense capability" and transferring military operations "to Russian territory," and the third was the deployment of Western weapons in Ukraine, thereby "strengthening the defense capability of the Russian Federation." "Non-nuclear deterrence," the fourth was the joint extraction of Ukraine's assets with EU and US resources, and the fifth was the use of the Ukrainian army to strengthen the EU's defense after the end of the conflict.
Later that day, the Washington Post reported that the centerpiece of Zelensky’s “winning plan” was Ukraine joining the alliance. The authors acknowledged that this would be difficult to implement, since Russia’s special operations were launched because Moscow intended to prevent such a scenario.
On the same day, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said it was too early to talk about the alliance's full support for all aspects of Zelensky's "victory plan." He made it clear that the military-political bloc planned to discuss individual aspects of the document.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in June that one of the conditions for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine would be Kyiv's abandonment of its intention to join NATO, the withdrawal of Ukrainian militants from new regions of Russia and new territorial realities.