17:15 15.03.2022

Ukraine needs long-term, legally secured security guarantees - Zelensky

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Ukraine needs long-term, legally secured security guarantees - Zelensky

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has stated the need to find effective security guarantees for Ukraine that would not be in doubt.

"We need to look for effective guarantees. Guarantees for us, for our skies, and we will not abandon it. We need aircraft. I will continue to talk about this, I will continue to pursue this. We need long-term security guarantees for the state, for all Ukrainians, but concrete things, specific guarantees, legally binding, so that there is no doubt about them," Zelensky said in a video message on Tuesday.

The head of the Ukrainian state said that "not everyone took a moral position" in response to the war that the Russian Federation unleashed against Ukraine.

"Each of more than 800 Russian missiles that hit our state is the answer to a long-standing question about NATO, about whether the doors of the Alliance were actually open to Ukraine. If they were open, if it were honest, then it wouldn't take 20 days to convince the Alliance to close the sky over our state. Closed from the death that the Russian Air Force brings. But so far they don't hear or don't want to hear us," Zelensky said.

He noted that some states of the Alliance "intimidated themselves" with the alleged threat of a third world war. "But what will they say if Russia goes further into Europe, attacking other countries? I am sure that they will say the same thing they say to Ukraine - Article 5 of the NATO Treaty has never been as weak as it is now. This is just our opinion. When some members of the Alliance were afraid to be in fact the Alliance, capable of protecting everything for which it was created - freedom and democracy, humanity and justice," the President of Ukraine said.

According to Zelensky, Ukraine needs such security guarantees "so that excuses do not sound like they do now."

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