Russland: Die Ukraine hat ein „souveränes Recht“, sich der EU anzuschließen – aber nicht die NATO
https://www.politico.eu/article/dmitrt-peskov-kremlin-ukraine-sovereign-right-join-eu-not-nato/
Russland: Die Ukraine hat ein „souveränes Recht“, sich der EU anzuschließen – aber nicht die NATO
https://www.politico.eu/article/dmitrt-peskov-kremlin-ukraine-sovereign-right-join-eu-not-nato/
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Because they know that EU will never accept Ukraine.
Dictionary: Russians have a definition of ‘sovereign’ they like – but not us.
Will Poland accept Ukraine into the EU? Because the Ukrainian government built a pharaonic monument to Stepan Bandera, a literally nazi SS who killed hundred of thousands of Poles and Jews in Western Ukraine during the German occupation in the WW2, and despite the Polish government’s demand, the mass graves have not been opened yet.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera_monument_in_Lviv](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera_monument_in_Lviv)
[https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/10/27/remains-of-poles-killed-by-ukrainian-nationalists-in-ww2-massacres-found-in-ukraine/](https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/10/27/remains-of-poles-killed-by-ukrainian-nationalists-in-ww2-massacres-found-in-ukraine/)
Hard to take this seriously when [Russia directly intervened in 2013](https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/The-Maidan-protest-movement) when Ukraine was about to sign an agreement with the EU that (at most) can be seen as the first step towards EU. At the time Ukraine was a 100% neutral country, with a pro-Russian president that wanted to increase trade with Europe while maintaining its much closer ties to Russia.
EU has security structures.
This goes back to the concept of „Indivisible security“ from the Helsinki Accords. The notion makes a lot of sense and is at the core of Russian grievances to the post-Cold war era. The Cuban Missile Crisis and the subsequent removal of nukes from Cuba and Turkey are a great example of this. You can’t use every advantage to ensure your own security at the expense of others. Just because you believe you neighbor is a nutjob, you can’t set up a three meter ring fence around his house with machine gun pillboxes and not expect him to retaliate (only confirming your suspicion that he is dangerous). See any parallels here?
Didn’t they say Ukraine is a fictive nation created by Soviet Union just a few months ago? Now they acknowledge “sovreign rights” of Ukraine?