"Only membership": Ukraine rejects any alternatives to joining NATO.

On the day the NATO ministerial meeting commenced, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine released its stance on potential security guarantees, which are viewed as a means of deterring Russian aggression. Ukraine rejects any alternative security guarantees to NATO membership.

This was reported by European Pravda, which has obtained the relevant document. The statement was made "on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum."

"We are convinced that the only real security guarantee for Ukraine, as well as a deterrent to further Russian aggression against Ukraine and other states, is full membership of Ukraine in NATO," the document states.

It is noted that Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha is likely to present this position during the NATO ministerial meeting, which will begin on December 3 in Brussels.

The document emphasizes that Ukraine categorically rejects formats that are alternatives to membership.

"Having the bitter experience of the Budapest Memorandum behind us, we will not accept any alternatives, surrogates, or substitutes for full NATO membership for Ukraine," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs states.

The foreign policy agency calls upon "the USA and the UK, which signed the Budapest Memorandum, France and China, which joined it, and all states parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons," to politically support Ukraine's invitation to NATO now, which would serve as "effective resistance to Russian blackmail."

Recall that earlier Telegraph reported that President Volodymyr Zelensky recently stated that Ukraine will never recognize its temporarily occupied territories as part of Russia. Therefore, the option of joining NATO in parts is not being considered. In exchange for NATO membership, Ukraine is only willing to halt military actions against Russian occupiers, and nothing more.