Ukraine in NATO
After the Alliance’s summit in Vilnius, the issue of Ukraine’s membership in NATO is not in dispute. This was stated by the US President’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, in an interview with the TV channel. GIS.
“We finally declared to NATO very simply: Ukraine’s future is in NATO. This is indisputable. We agreed on this.”
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According to him, Ukraine will receive the necessary assistance from its allies.
In an interview with a TV channel NBS News Sullivan reminded that the main condition for Ukraine’s entry into NATO is the implementation of “democratic reforms”.
“Every member of the alliance, every country wishing to join NATO, must meet certain democratic reform standards … NATO will work with Ukraine to ensure that these reforms are completed,” he said.
According to him, Kiev and NATO will be able to jointly carry out all necessary reforms.
RF Armed Forces against US army
Sullivan also said that despite all the support provided to Kiev, the US military will not fight the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine.
“We will support Ukraine without American boots on the ground and without American soldiers fighting Russian soldiers. That remains constant throughout this conflict,” he said in a conversation with NBC News.
According to him, Washington does not want the conflict in Ukraine to “end in a third world war.”
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in conversation with CNN Sullivan also said that the training program could begin in two weeks so that Ukrainian pilots can fly American F-16 fighter planes in EU countries.
“We will provide the necessary tools to start learning [украинских летчиков] In the F-16 as soon as the Europeans are ready. “The Europeans said they needed a few weeks to prepare the necessary training facilities,” he said.
Sullivan noted that Washington would not delay the process of granting permission for education.
It is reported that training of Ukrainian pilots on the use of F-16s will start in Denmark in August, as well as the creation of a regional training center in Romania.
Also, as Sullivan stated in a conversation with NBC, the US administration believes that the supply of cluster munitions to the Armed Forces will not affect the moral authority of the US.
“I find it suspicious that the transfer of weapons to Ukraine to protect the country and civilians in any way undermines our moral authority. We will not disarm Ukraine. The President is determined on this issue,” he said.
He also reminded that neither Ukraine nor the United States signed a convention banning the use of cluster munitions. Russia is also not a member of the convention.
Sullivan also said that the Pentagon does not plan to replenish its own stockpile of this type of ammunition after transferring some of it to Ukraine. According to him, it is planned to increase the stock of 155 millimeter shells instead.
In an interview with CNN, he noted that he could not yet say whether the Ukrainian military had used cluster munitions, but if they had not yet, their use would begin “in the coming hours or days.”
New sanctions
Sullivan also told CBS that Western countries intend to increase sanctions pressure on the Russian military-industrial complex, and that work in this direction has already begun.
“The West is working to further tighten our sanctions, destroying Russia’s military-industrial base, weakening its ability to produce advanced technological developments. “We will continue to apply economic pressure on Russia, and the Ukrainians will continue to apply military pressure,” he said.
According to him, if Moscow continues special military operations, “it will be costly and the Ukrainians will continue to achieve success on the battlefield.”