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Faced with Russian outbidding, Ukraine wants to join NATO

2022-09-30T17:30:39.506Z


DECRYPTION – The Atlantic Alliance has warned of a moment of serious escalation in the conflict. By annexing the territories occupied in Ukraine by his army, the Russian head of state, Vladimir Putin, wants to believe that he has changed the rules of the game. It would no longer be a question for the Kremlin of carrying out a " special operation but to defend Russia's borders. The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, responded to him on the same legal and military ground by filing a reque


By annexing the territories occupied in Ukraine by his army, the Russian head of state, Vladimir Putin, wants to believe that he has changed the rules of the game. It would no longer be a question for the Kremlin of carrying out a "

special operation

but to defend Russia's borders.

The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, responded to him on the same legal and military ground by filing a request for “

rapid membership

” of NATO.

If Ukraine joined the Atlantic Alliance, it would benefit from the conventional and potentially nuclear protection of its allies, just as the Kremlin could claim, for the annexed territories, the defense of its vital interests through its arsenal of deterrence.

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"

De facto

", Ukraine and NATO are "

allies

", he noted in a video message.

We ask to be de jure

,” he added.

The Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, reacted at the end of the day: "

Any democracy has the right to apply for membership

," he said.

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Source: lefigaro

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