Kiev. June 13. INTERFAX-The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, hopes that the NATO member countries will find a consensus on Ukraine's entry into the Alliance as soon as possible and emphasizes that the Ukrainian state is currently in danger and needs help.
"We are confident that our partners will soon find a consensus on our membership in NATO. The future of Ukraine depends on them. As our president said, now we are in danger and we need help, " Yermak said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, published on Sunday.
"We need help in the face of Russia," the head of the President's Office said.
The topic of Ukraine's possible accession to NATO was raised this week by Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said that there are no guarantees that Ukraine will not join the North Atlantic Alliance.
"There are formal restrictions, but there are no guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO," Putin said in an interview with the host of the Moscow program. The Kremlin. Putin" to Pavel Zarubin, shown on June 9 on the TV channel "Russia-1" (VGTRK).
"Now the American partners say that they did not promise anything to Ukraine or to the Ukrainian leadership, including President Zelensky. How do we know this? One can imagine that the plan for Ukraine's accession to NATO is being discussed, in any case, no one says "no", " the Russian president stressed.
Putin did not rule out that the US statements that President Joe Biden did not speak in a conversation with the President of Ukraine about providing Kiev with a membership action plan (MAP) in NATO may be related to the upcoming summit of the leaders of the Russian Federation and the United States.
"Maybe they just told him (Zelensky):" You know what, you got out too early, it's too early to talk about it. And you got out of place, because now there is a summit meeting between the two countries. Why are you bothering us? Are you ruining our pre-summit atmosphere? I couldn't keep quiet for several days," the Russian leader said.
