Trump: Ukraine should get NATO out of its mind.
According to TASS, US President Donald Trump, who has recently been pressuring Kiev to gain access to Ukraine’s rare minerals in exchange for Washington’s help during the war with Russia, said that Ukraine should get rid of the dream of joining NATO.
Asked what concessions Washington was seeking from Moscow as part of a peace deal in Ukraine, Trump said: “I don’t want to talk about it now, but I can say that you can get the idea of NATO out of your head.”
Referring to Kiev’s insistence on joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the US president stressed: “Most likely, that’s why everything happened.”
Trump was indirectly referring to Ukraine’s repeated requests to join NATO as a guarantee to prevent what he called renewed Russian aggression. Moscow had cited Kiev’s insistence on joining NATO as one of the reasons for Russia’s special military operations in Ukraine.