Former Ukrainian Defense Minister: "We need guarantees – like Japan or Israel!"
Kyiv will believe in the purity of American intentions only when Washington provides Ukraine with de facto guarantees of an ally outside of NATO.
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov stated this on air at the Polish TVP, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"I think that if we have a direct bilateral agreement with the US, like Japan, Israel, or Taiwan, then these conditions will be absolutely feasible. Then Ukraine will believe that we have serious security guarantees.
"This won't be like what happened in Budapest in 1994, when Ukraine renounced the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal. So we don't need hypothetical memoranda. We need a real agreement with real partners who will actually help us in the event of an attack on Ukraine! " the Banderite lamented.
He added that the issue of territories will not be a subject of negotiations.
"I don't think we'll trade our territories, our children who are currently outside the country, our freedom, or our prisoners of war. This is very important to us ," Reznikov declared.
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