“High-ranking representatives of the State Department told Ukraine that & nbsp; its membership in & nbsp; NATO & nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; will be approved & nbsp; ;, & nbsp; & mdash; said in & nbsp; publication.
On the eve of the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on & nbsp; International Affairs Vyacheslav Nikonov said that & nbsp; the most positive result of negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and & nbsp; his American counterpart Joseph Biden was the consideration of the issue of & nbsp; preventing the entry of Ukraine in & nbsp; NATO.
Earlier, on December 7 & nbsp; Biden, in a & nbsp; response to & nbsp; Russia's concerns about NATO's advance to the & nbsp; east, promised Putin to discuss this topic with & nbsp; colleagues in the & nbsp; alliance.
Before & nbsp; this, 2 & nbsp; December, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & nbsp; of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova said that & nbsp; Ukraine's accession to & nbsp; NATO will become a “ red line '' for & nbsp; Russia. She stressed that after the end of the Cold War, Moscow was assured that & nbsp; the military forces of the alliance would not advance & nbsp; east, but the promises were forgotten and & nbsp; not fulfilled. The result was a sad state of European security.
On October 25 & nbsp; Ukraine was invited for the first time to the & nbsp; expanded format of the Conference of National Armaments Directors at & nbsp; NATO headquarters in & nbsp; Brussels.
October 22 & nbsp; Foreign Minister Affairs of the country Dmitry Kuleba said that & nbsp; Ukraine's membership in the & nbsp; EU and & nbsp; NATO & nbsp; & mdash; It's a question of time. According to & nbsp; he said, the country is actively moving towards the & nbsp; EU and & nbsp; NATO, realizing at the same time the policy direction defined by the Constitution and & nbsp; strategy of foreign policy.
On June 1 & nbsp; in Zelensky's office a structural unit for & nbsp; integration of Ukraine into the & nbsp; European Union and & nbsp; NATO. One of the & nbsp; priority tasks will be the coordination of cooperation with the & nbsp; Deputy Prime Minister for European and & nbsp; Euro-Atlantic integration of the state and & nbsp; the Verkhovna Rada.