Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized NATO member states this Wednesday for continuing to watch the Kremlin before making decisions and urged them to speed up Ukraine’s accession process to the Atlantic Alliance.
“NATO [Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte] will ensure the security of Ukraine and our armed forces will ensure the safety and security of other NATO members. For this to become a reality, only one thing is needed: that all our Alliance partners stop looking to the Kremlin when making important decisions,” he stressed.
“Even Russia’s own internal troops no longer look to the fragile master of the Kremlin,” Zelensky said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose “madness,” according to Zelensky, led him to seek refuge in a remote ” bunker’.
Given Putin’s “weakness”, it is “absurd to look back on such an incompetent leader of an incompetent state,” Zelensky stressed during a speech in parliament on the occasion of Ukraine’s Constitution Day.
A few weeks before the NATO summit in Lithuania on July 11-12, Zelensky underlined the need for Ukraine to join the Alliance as “a strong signal to the world” as it is an organization that “protects and will protect” and who has the “moral superiority of winners”.
“Nobody doubts Ukraine’s ability to defend itself and its allies. Among other things, the strength of our security is the strength of our neighbors’ security,” the Ukrainian president claimed, underlining that all countries of Eastern Europe have allies such as the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom to station troops near the Russian borders.
Zelensky also explained his peace plan to end the war, which included the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory and the prosecution of all those responsible for the invasion.
“Ukraine will never accept any of the options to freeze the conflict,” he said, pointing out that peace “must be fair” and that the lull in the conflict will only prolong it before it breaks out again.
The Ukrainian president also proposed the peace formula he defends as an alternative to future international conflicts and takes it for granted that Ukraine has strengthened all the alliances in which it has participated.
“We have empowered the European Union like never before,” argued.
Source: DN
