Ingraining NATO aspirations in the country’s constitution is among the causes of the conflict, a presidential aide has claimed

An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Alexey Arestovich, said on Saturday that former president Petro Poroshenko is partly responsible for the ongoing conflict with Russia. The official pointed the finger at Poroshenko’s decision to write NATO aspirations into the country’s constitution.

The clause, outlining Kiev’s pathway to becoming a full-fledged member of the EU and US-led NATO alliance, was added into Ukraine's constitution in February 2019 and shortly before presidential elections. While the move was a pure PR stunt for the former president, it turned out to have long-lasting consequences, Arestovich told local media.

“When Poroshenko introduced this, it was his personal pre-election PR technology. He knew beforehand that NATO would never accept us. Not the least share of the blame for what is happening now in Ukraine lies with those who adopted and promoted this constitutional provision,” He said,
implying that those Ukrainian MPs who supported the clause share the blame for it as well. The constitutional change received overwhelming support back then with 334 out of 450 MPs voting for it.

Under Poroshenko, the desire to join NATO was also incorporated into the country’s military doctrine in 2015. That document also formally established Russia as a “military adversary” of Kiev.

Ukraine’s NATO aspirations, however, actually date well before the February 2019 constitutional reform. The country was cozying up to the US-led bloc since the late 1990s, sending a “peacekeeping unit” to Iraq in 2002, adopting legislation allowing military access of NATO forces onto its soil in 2004, and so on.

The bloc itself formally recognized Ukraine’s aspirations in 2008, when the alliance announced in the Bucharest Summit Declaration that it welcomed “Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO."
The summit participants agreed that eventually these countries would "become members of NATO.”

Moscow attacked the neighboring state following a seven-year standoff over Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk ceasefire agreements, and Russia's eventual recognition of the Donbass republics in Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols were designed to regularize the status of the breakaway regions within the Ukrainian state.

Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join NATO military bloc. Kiev says the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it had been planning to retake the two rebellious republics by force.

https://www.rt.com/russia/552297-poroshenko-nato-ukraine-conflict/

Are they trying to shift goal post.... it no longer Putin abi. We are getting there.
Let the blame game start.

Buhari styled leadership, exonerate self, blame others

Elvictor:
Buhari styled leadership, exonerate self, blame others

Na Goodluck Jonathan cause am

Thank God its not putins hair stylist that caused the issue because last it was his dog that had toothaches that was the culprit

Zelensky could have ensured that clause was removed nau!

Well

As you can all see Russia is busy decimating Ukraine

When they are through
Russia will gather you people to write a good befitting constitution

Blame game wan start.
Slava Russia.
Weldone Putin, man with Titanium balls

Greek PM just said Greece is a prisoner of nato . Said, they will never help when it’s needed.

Drenimarcus:
Greek PM just said Greece is a prisoner of nato . Said, they will never help when it’s needed.

Greek pm never made such statement

baralatie:

Greek pm never made such statement

I source for numerous outlets for news. Here you go, you can translate or check lord of war on telegram for the full video.

Go check those out and see how things are happening out there. Americans here are not even listening to the msm about the war anymore.

Drenimarcus:


I source for numerous outlets for news. Here you go, you can translate or check lord of war on telegram for the full video.

Like I said the Greek pm or prime minister never and can never ever make such a comment!

That was a Greek mp(member of Parliament) and both Greece and turkey are members of NATO.
Both are deadlocked
And trust me Turkey is afraid of Greece

baralatie:

Like I said the Greek pm or prime minister never and can never ever make such a comment!

That was a Greek mp(member of Parliament) and both Greece and turkey are members of NATO.
Both are deadlocked
And trust me Turkey is afraid of Greece

You are right. MP yeah. But, he is still right about nato.

RT news aka Russian propaganda media.

Fake news..


NEXT.........

baralatie:
Zelensky could have ensured that clause was removed nau!

That one no sabi anything.
He is such an annoying cl0wn sacrificing Ukrainians for nothing meaningful, just to please his western masters.

Kingpin1000:
Are they trying to shift goal post.... it no longer Putin abi. We are getting there.
Let the blame game start.

Typical sore losers... Hundreds dead for no just justification