10 minutes agoUkrainian Minister: We are de facto member of NATO
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Ukraine's Defence Minister, Olexei Reznikov, has said his state is a de facto member of the NATO military coalition. This because according to him the Western countries, once concerned that their military assistance to Ukraine could be seen as a escalation from Russia, have changed their “approach to [...]
This, according to him, Western countries, once concerned that their military assistance to Ukraine could be seen as a escalation from Russia, have changed their “way of thinking”.
In an interview for the BBC, Reznikov has said he is sure that Ukraine will take the weapons demanded by NATO member states, including tanks and fighter aircraft, as both Ukraine and Russia are preparing for new offensives in the spring.
“Ukrainian as a country and the Ukrainian Armed Forces became members of NATO, de facto, not de jure, by law. Because we have guns and we know how to use them”, he said.
