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In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by MANDIPUTIN(op): 3:53pm On Mar 09, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M67OhYqU7AU

President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is no longer pressing for NATO membership for Ukraine, a delicate issue that was one of Russia's stated reasons for invading its pro-Western neighbor.

In another apparent nod aimed at placating Moscow, Zelensky said he is open to "compromise" on the status of two breakaway pro-Russian territories that President Vladimir Putin recognized as independent just before unleashing the invasion on February 24.

"I have cooled down regarding this question a long time ago after we understood that ... NATO is not prepared to accept Ukraine," Zelensky said in an interview aired Monday night on ABC News.

"The alliance is afraid of controversial things, and confrontation with Russia," the president added.

Referring to NATO membership, Zelensky said through an interpreter that he does not want to be president of a "country which is begging something on its knees."

Russia has said it does not want neighboring Ukraine to join NATO, the transatlantic alliance created at the start of the Cold War to protect Europe from the Soviet Union.

In more recent years the alliance has expanded further and further east to take in former Soviet bloc countries, infuriating the Kremlin.

Russia sees NATO enlargement as a threat, as it does the military posture of these new Western allies on its doorstep.

Shortly before he shocked the world by ordering the invasion of Ukraine, Putin recognized as independent two separatist pro-Russian "republics" in eastern Ukraine -- Donetsk and Lugansk -- that have been at war with Kyiv since 2014.

Putin now wants Ukraine, too, to recognize them as sovereign and independent.

When ABC asked him about this Russian demand, Zelensky said he was open to dialogue.

"I'm talking about security guarantees," he said.

He said these two regions "have not been recognized by anyone but Russia, these pseudo republics. But we can discuss and find the compromise on how these territories will live on."

"What is important to me is how the people in those territories are going to live who want to be part of Ukraine, who in Ukraine will say that they want to have them in," Zelensky said.

"So the question is more difficult than simply acknowledging them," the president said.

"This is another ultimatum and we are not prepared for ultimatums. What needs to be done is for President Putin to start talking, start the dialogue instead of living in the informational bubble without oxygen."

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220308-in-nod-to-russia-ukraine-says-no-longer-insisting-on-nato-membership
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by gawu1: 4:01pm On Mar 09, 2022
The fire is too much
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by sofeo(m): 4:02pm On Mar 09, 2022
Ok.
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Rollsnjaguar(m): 4:15pm On Mar 09, 2022
Where is Fernandezisback grin
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by helinues:
Eyes don dey clear, NATO are not coming to their rescue.

Toh
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Lionnation: 4:21pm On Mar 09, 2022
Ok na after lives have been wasted, humans are so daft
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Emychina(m): 4:22pm On Mar 09, 2022
Rollsnjaguar:
Where is Fernandezisback grin
same thing i wanted to ask
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Rollsnjaguar(m): 4:23pm On Mar 09, 2022
Emychina:
same thing i wanted to ask
cheesy
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by MrBrownJay1(m): 4:28pm On Mar 09, 2022
na soso SENSE con enter him brain... EDIOT!!!!
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Balkan(m):
The US have been deceiving you. Don't fight your brothers Russia. America can not love you more than your people. All the lies the western media are propagating are deceiving you.

The reality on grand is that Ukraine �� can't face Russia. The US and EU are not fighting for you. Their interest is to weaken Russia.
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Nobody: 4:39pm On Mar 09, 2022
Trust the West at ur own risk........USA,NATO and other Western countries have used Ukraine as a laboratory experiment........
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Maxymilliano(m): 4:40pm On Mar 09, 2022
Not too late to make the right decision ... NATO was no where to be found when it service and support was needed mostly.

Good morning Zelensky, NATO has proven to be Egbekegbe society
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Perfectbeing(m): 4:57pm On Mar 09, 2022
All will be revealed
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Gadafii: 4:58pm On Mar 09, 2022
After NATO don shenk am at the expense of human liveshuh
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Botlord: 5:00pm On Mar 09, 2022
I refuse to believe this.
The almighty Zelensky will never utter such statement. cheesy

Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by KaideeGee(m):
And you shall hang the veil from the clasps. Then you shall bring the ark of the Testimony in there, behind the veil. The veil shall be a divider for you between the holy place and the Most Holy.You shall put the mercy seat upon the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy.

Let's Pray,
Dear Father, we come into Your presence with gratitude in our hearts for everything.
Please have mercy on us we pray, for our sins, shortcomings, our iniquities. Please cleanse us through the blood of Jesus. Dedicate us unto Yourself.
Father please we ask for Your divine manifestation, manifest Yourself in us through Your word and glorify Yourself. Amen. Thank You for listening and answering, we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Dear Followers of Christ,
Sometimes I ask why the most holy had to be separated from the holy place. Here are a few reasons we got through the Spirit of God.
- It was a manifestation of the relationship between God and man at the time. Man had to actively come to God, unlike in our time in which God became flesh to dwell in us.
- God was fundamentally separate from man and that separation could not be easily bridged.
- The mercy seat was located inside the Most Holy place and this was covered with a veil, this gives a general outline of the attitude of God concerning the sins of the people. There was little to no mercy for sin. Everything had to pay for it's sin.
- It symbolized that something was still behind the scene waiting to make a debut. Something was being prepared like a bride under a veil to be presented to the groom.
Nothing God does is meaningless.
Peace.
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Asidy(m): 6:06pm On Mar 09, 2022
He start receiving sense by force.. �
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Rugaria: 6:12pm On Mar 09, 2022
Rollsnjaguar:
Where is Fernandezisback grin
He's in the suburbs of Kiev..
He volunteered to fight for his Ukrainian lords..
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Rollsnjaguar(m): 6:14pm On Mar 09, 2022
Rugaria:
He's in the suburbs of Kiev..
He volunteered to fight for his Ukrainian lords..
grin
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Upworkwriter007(f): 6:16pm On Mar 09, 2022
Better. If his stance were to continue, he won't have a country to rule over has both russia and nato countries would have been using the country to flex muscles. And the war could last for decades sef.
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by HausaIgboYoruba:
I thought the UK Sun newspaper just reported Russia lossing 12k soldiers. Trust the West and u r a goner
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Parachoko: 6:26pm On Mar 09, 2022
But Ukraine has killed more than 20,000 Russian Soldiers now shocked sad
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by SarkinYarki: 6:34pm On Mar 09, 2022
Good ..now disable CIA's AZOV Nazi Brigade and bio labs
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Kaiser20: 6:35pm On Mar 09, 2022
Ukraine and Russia should settle their differences immediately and stop the aggression. But they must not involve USA and Europe in their meetings and negotiations.
Warning to Zelenski "Any country America enter that country will never know Peace "
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by qekng40(f): 6:44pm On Mar 09, 2022
Wisdom is profitable.
.
.
US is not happy with this news
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Daniel058(m):
And many are dead already.

You see
Vladimir Putin

Kim Jong-un
All other county
country s president are Afraid of them.
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by hodari: 6:54pm On Mar 09, 2022
SarkinYarki:
Good ..now disable CIA's AZOV Nazi Brigade and bio labs
Both the US biolabs and their pet Nazi brigades are being turned to fine dust by the Russian military. grin cool
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by Bakrabas: 6:57pm On Mar 09, 2022
NATO can only flex muscle on developing countries in Asia Africa and South America
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by VEHINTOLAR: 7:13pm On Mar 09, 2022
Zelensky would have saved so many souls from death and prevented so many properties and businesses from destruction if he had taken this stance long time before now !

Russia,Belarus and Ukraine are indivisibly one country;the boundaries that exist among them are just artificial ! Those three countries are the homeland of ethnic Russians and that's why it's practically impossible for the West to win over an inch of those territories under NATO's influence. It is not even about Putin as most people assume; the Kremlin won't allow that to happen. In fact, no ruler of Russia will allow it !
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by hodari: 7:19pm On Mar 09, 2022
Bakrabas:
NATO can only flex muscle on developing countries in Asia Africa and South America
The only successful US military operation was the invasion of Grenada in 1981.

This is a tiny carribean island of 90,000 people.

Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by TheWolfen(m): 7:26pm On Mar 09, 2022
Lol
Re: In Nod To Russia, Ukraine Says No Longer Insisting On NATO Membership by TheWolfen(m): 7:37pm On Mar 09, 2022
gawu1:
The fire is too much
Azin ehn

Heavy bombardment.
It is actually a scary thing. I feel for Ukrainians but their comedian president lack wisdom and got a huge ego
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