Ukraine “has not abandoned” its intention to join NATO, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna has said, while criticizing the alliance for its “hesitation.”
In an interview with El Pais on Tuesday, Stefanishyna claimed NATO’s hesitation to admit Ukraine, which received an invitation to the bloc in 2008, led to the current military conflict with Moscow and brought Russian President Vladimir Putin “to where he is now.”
“Sweden and Finland will become NATO members as soon as possible. But I can tell you for sure that if these countries waited another 15 years for their membership decision, they too would be in a state of war,” the deputy PM claimed, referring to recent decisions by the Swedish and Finnish governments to reconsider their longstanding non-alignment policy amid Russian actions in Ukraine.
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