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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has demanded an honest answer from NATO as to whether his country could even become a member. 

"If not everyone wants to see us there, be honest," he said at the Munich Security Conference, alluding to the necessary unanimity among NATO members. 

"We need honest answers." But nobody should think that Ukraine will remain a permanent buffer between the West and Russia.

NATO withdraws employees from Kiev

In view of the escalating situation in the Ukraine conflict, NATO has now withdrawn employees from its representation in Kiev. "The safety of our staff is of the utmost importance, which is why employees have been relocated to Lviv and Brussels," said a spokeswoman in Brussels on Saturday. However, the Alliance's offices in Ukraine remained functional.

NATO initially did not provide any information on the number of employees who had been relocated.



https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/arti...e-aus.html

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According to a file in Britain's National Archives, on March 6, 1991, a German diplomat said he did not want to "expand" NATO. But this is by no means a confirmation of Putin's thesis that the West has "betrayed" Russia.

The reports the news magazine "Der Spiegel" based on a finding by the US political scientist Joshua Shifrinson. It is the memorandum of a meeting between high-ranking representatives of the German, British, French and US foreign ministries in Bonn on March 6, 1991.

https://www.welt.de/geschichte/plus23700...eutet.html