NATO Chief of Staff Stefan Jenssen’s “offer” to Ukraine to end the war triggered by the Russian invasion has become a coincidence. Jenssen suggested that Kiev could be a member of the alliance in exchange for ceding part of its territory to Russia. According to the senior official, this could lead to the end of the war in Ukraine. The proposal reported by the Norwegian newspaper VG immediately reverberated in the Ukrainian media: “I think the solution may be for Ukraine to cede its territory and in exchange obtain NATO membership”, Jenssen’s exact phrase, “I’m not saying that this should be the case . But it could be a possible solution.”
“Solution” that enraged Ukraine. “Trading a territory for a NATO umbrella? It’s ridiculous,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volosymyr Zelensky, wrote in a tweet. In short, Kiev has no intention of leaving pieces of Ukraine to Vladimir Putin in exchange for NATO defense. “It means deliberately choosing to defeat democracy,” adds Podolyak, “encouraging a global criminal, preserving the Russian regime, destroying international law, and passing the war on to other generations.” “Attempts to preserve the world order and establish a ‘bad peace’ through, let’s be honest, Putin’s triumph will not bring world peace, but dishonor and war,” the Ukrainian adviser stressed.
Source: IL Tempo
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