Oleksiy Melnyk, Co-director of foreign affairs and international security programmes at the Razumkov Center, said that to blame Putin’s aggression on western reluctance to draw closer to Ukraine would be to repeat a Kremlin propaganda trick, of accusing others of your own faults. Mr. Melnyk added that apart from army modernization efforts, a MAP would require national consensus and NATO-member consensus – none of which was in place in 2008, the Kyiv Post writes.
Mr. Melnyk’s view was reflected by Stoltenberg, who underlined that the alliance back in 2008 had merely stated the obvious – that the two countries had the …read more
Source: Razumkov Centre