Czech President Petr Pavel's proposal that Ukraine's membership in NATO be replaced by security guarantees with the military presence of Western countries on its territory is a stillborn idea. This was stated by the chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Leonid Slutsky, quoted by TASS.
Earlier, Peter Pavel said to Die Presse that during the negotiations, the refusal of Ukraine to join the North Atlantic Alliance could be exchanged for guarantees for security of Kiev, noting that “we are talking about a military presence.“
„He believes that Kiev's refusal to join NATO can be exchanged for security guarantees with the deployment of contingents of Western countries in Ukraine. Another stillborn “formula”. The West is trying to bring the military structure of the alliance closer to Russia's borders, Slutsky wrote on the Telegram channel.
The politician emphasized that it was the expansion of NATO that forced Russia to start the military operation to protect the people in Donbass. According to him, negotiations are only possible if there are guarantees to guarantee the indivisible security of the Russian Federation, which should have been included in the agreement in December 2021.
"But then they continued to lie to us and talk to us about the “NATO open door policy”. The result is known”, he noted.