Ukraine needs not security guarantees, but guarantees of NATO membership — opinion
As
the NATO summit in Vilnius on July 11-12 approaches, talks on providing
security guarantees to our country are intensifying. Messaging from the
European Political Community summit in Moldova, from after the NATO defense
ministers' meeting in Oslo, comments by German Chancellor Scholz and US
Secretary of State Blinken, and especially the Kremlin's reactions to all of
these, indicate that the idea of security guarantees for Ukraine's self-defense
is becoming crucial. For Ukraine's long-term interests, however, this is hardly
positive. After all, where there are bilateral or multilateral security
guarantees, there is less room left for Ukraine's membership in NATO, no matter
who or what says otherwise.
