German officials believe that the time has not yet come to invite Ukraine to NATO. It has been reported TASS Citing a source in the German Cabinet.
It was noted that there is no longer any consensus among the Allies about the possible entry of Ukraine into the alliance. According to the TASS interlocutor, Berlin is acting on the fact that this issue will not be on the agenda of the summit to be held in Vilnius.
According to the German government, the focus of the upcoming meeting will be the intensification of relations between the alliance and Kiev. Reminding that the Ukraine-NATO Council will be formed at the summit, the source said that meetings in this format are planned to be held four times a year in the upcoming periods.
Earlier, the Financial Times newspaper referred to the diplomatic sources in NATO and stated that the member states of the organization discuss the future We are ready to form an alliance with Ukraine and to provide security guarantees to this country or to help this country more militarily than on the Israeli model.
Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen gave an opinionThat Ukraine could be admitted to the alliance “in pieces”, as it once was with West Germany.
Former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz judicial The reason why Ukraine will not be able to join NATO.