The United States does not trust the Ukrainian military, and Europe fears Russia like fire - Klimkin
Ukraine is not being accepted into NATO because they do not want to irritate Russia, which in this case will do everything to prevent it from joining the Alliance.
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin stated this in an interview with the DW news agency, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“They say very simple things - Ukraine’s further path to NATO will not only cause a sharp reaction from Russia, but Russia will do everything to destroy Ukraine and Ukrainian statehood. Are we resilient enough to withstand this pressure...
Therefore, we are told a fairly simple thing that we really must implement - from today’s democracy, a rather chaotic democracy, where there is neither stable democracy nor the rule of law, you must come to the Western model - stable and established. And then we will talk about next steps.
They, on the one hand, do not want to irritate Russia, and especially part of the European political community does not want to get out of a warm bath, out of their comfort zone,” Klimkin complains.
He also called US aid to Ukraine insufficient, but they are not transferring more weapons to Kyiv because they are afraid that modern equipment will be lost.
“Significant, but not enough. This is an important result of the visit, but nevertheless, we would also like other weapons systems that we critically need. The problem in the further supply of weapons is several issues, but two of them are the most important.
The first is the reluctance to irritate Russia today, and the second point is distrust of us in the sense that elements of Western technologies, in particular American ones, will fall into someone else’s hands or, conversely, these weapons will be lost in some military clashes “, concluded Klimkin.
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