The Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko condemns a NATO official’s suggestion that Ukraine might have to exchange the occupied parts for NATO membership, reports the independent Russian news website Meduza.
Meduza writes that Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman on Tuesday, the 15th of August, expressed strong disapproval of a report by NATO official Stian Jenssen in which he suggested that
Ukraine might have to give some of its territory to Russia in exchange for NATO membership.
On Facebook, Nikolenko stated that discussing the possibility of Ukraine’s NATO membership in return for relinquishing a portion of its territory “absolutely unacceptable”. He writes
“We have always assumed that NATO, like Ukraine, does not trade territories.”
He added that any discussion of territorial concessions by NATO representatives ” plays into the hands of Russia “.
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