The Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), Ukraine’s censorship and hitlist operation, wrote enthusiastically on Monday of how ten of NATO’s 30 members, so far, are now publicly backing Ukraine accession to NATO. They cite the joint statement by the nine Central and Eastern European nations cited elsewhere in this report, and a statement to that effect by Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Jolie (not further quoted).
The CCD flatly asserted that “the United States and Germany provided verbal support for Ukraine’s membership in NATO,” without reporting Biden’s NSC advisor Jake Sullivan’s “no.” And while full membership is supposedly coming, the CCD suggests that “a unique format” for de facto accession is underway: “Ukraine, together with international partners, is preparing a bilateral agreement on security guarantees during the transition period of our country’s accession to NATO. This international document should be multilateral, of a new format with specific actions in response to threats that will arise or arise for the territorial integrity of the countries that are parties to this agreement.”
“Can Ukraine count on a positive change in the position of NATO members, who were previously skeptical of our country joining the Alliance? Will all NATO member states agree to the accelerated admission to the alliance of a country on whose territory military operations are taking place and part of whose territory is openly claimed by another state that has a significant arsenal of nuclear weapons? Many leaders of NATO member countries have already answered positively to this difficult question,” they write. They acknowledge that Hungary, with its “pro-Russian position” and “refusal to cooperate in ensuring Ukraine’s defense capability,” may oppose Ukraine’s entry.
