German pressure on the White House scuppered Kyiv's hopes of a stronger commitment to future Ukrainian membership, Newsweek was told.
But the White House and National Security Council did not, the source said."They kept saying that this is a red line for them. It just made the Ukrainians very suspicious. Later on, we found out that it was really the Germans pushing the administration, the NSC, to not agree to this language. Even though they were telling the Ukrainians they were fine with it.
The initial proposal was weaker, the source close to Zelensky's office said."They said that Ukraine would be included in the Euro-Atlantic community. That was the initial proposal. They did not want to use the word 'membership.' And they didn't want to use the word 'NATO.' That's got such a big hole you can drive several trucks through it."of a Western"sell-out," by which Kyiv's exclusion from NATO serves as an olive branch to the Kremlin.
"Knowing this country and knowing the context of the years before, we had a clear assumption that these conditions would not be about reforms. These conditions will be to put pressure on Ukraine on issues related to ending the war, the peace talks, and so on," she said. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz deplanes at the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11, 2023. Ukraine has been frustrated by Berlin's perceived hesitance to back Kyiv against Russia.She added of Zelensky's public condemnation of NATO:"When a last-minute change is happening, there's no way that you can act as if nothing has happened."has irked Kyiv since the beginning of its conflict with Russia in 2014.
Asked if Kyiv felt genuine consensus on its membership goal, Stefanishyna responded:"I can confirm it 100 percent. And this can also be seen through the, let's say, transformation of the president through the two days."
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