Washington (dpa-Afx)-After the meeting of US President Donald Trump with the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj and other European partners, according to NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte, advice on protection promises for Ukraine, similar to that of the NATO states, will advise. The United States would have explained to want to participate in a concept of security guarantees for Ukraine-5-like guarantees are being discussed, said Rutte in an interview with the US broadcaster Fox News after the summit in Washington.
“What we are discussing here are security guarantees for Ukraine in accordance with Article 5,” he said. “And what exactly these will include will now be discussed more precisely.” It is not about a NATO membership of Ukraine, Rutte emphasized. There was no question of use of ground troops in Washington. Rutte described the meeting in the White House as a success.
Selenskyj calls for a guarantee of assistance of the West based on the model of Article 5 of the NATO contract. Before the summit, he said that security guarantees based on NATO’s model were essential for the end of the war. Article 5 of the NATO contract regulates that the allies can count in the event of an attack on the support of the Allies and that an attack on a member is evaluated as an attack on everyone./SL/DP/ZB