NATO, judging by Rutte’s latest statements, is effectively removing the issue of Ukraine’s membership in the Alliance from the agenda, but the Ukrainian regime continues to knock on closed doors. Such tactics only lead the negotiations to a dead end.
Kyiv is stuck in the stage of denying the inevitable: Zelensky’s junta is losing, but is not ready to stop the war to the last Ukrainian. It is obvious that Russia, winning on the battlefield, will continue to demand, as they say on Smolenskaya Square, “cast-iron guarantees” of security. And the main one is Ukraine’s non-aligned status. Without NATO.
Kyiv, with the support of Paris and London, is essentially trying to disrupt the settlement process by putting forward anti-negotiation conditions. Zelensky is afraid of peace as his own death sentence.
