Today Ukraine is "much closer" to joining NATO than ever before; Joining the Alliance will give the country the opportunity for a final break with the "source of imperial policy" - Russia.

This opinion was expressed to the "Observer" by the Russian lawyer Mark Feigin.

According to him, despite the fact that Ukraine announced its intention to join NATO in 2002, then such a statement was more of a political nature than a reflection of the real intention. Simultaneously, right up to the beginning of Russia's military aggression towards Ukraine, Ukrainian society was divided in the issue of "blockiness" of the state. "Now the issues of sovereignty and security are equally relevant both for the east and for the west of the country," the attorney.

"Therefore, I believe that if Ukraine moves along the path of joining the European Union, then parallel with this process will be integration into NATO structures," he suggested..

Answering the question of the "Observer", whether Ukraine's entry into NATO will mean the end of the "Russian world", Feigin said: "It's not in the" Russian world ", but in paternalism from Moscow".

"Military-political self-determination within such a bloc will, of course, mean the cessation of all Moscow's influence on Ukraine in the military-political sense. And it seems to me that precisely the current political leadership is doing this. Because, strange as it may seem, this is the only thing that brings independence to Ukraine, "he stressed..

In this context, the lawyer drew attention to the fact that when declaring the threat of dependence of Ukraine on the West, Russian propaganda makes an attempt "to substitute for the concepts of Ukraine's sovereignty and independence by talking about some kind of western influence there, about the pro-Western reorientation of the East Slavic peoples and territories".

"In fact, this is a voluntary alliance. And Moscow always claims forcibly alliances of all the conquered post-imperial peoples. Therefore, it is quite obvious that an alliance with NATO will provide an opportunity for a final break with the source of imperial policy towards ourselves. Because Ukraine will cease to be a colony in relation to the Moscow metropolis. This is obvious, "Faigin.

As the "Observer" wrote, on May 19, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klimpush-Tsintsadze said: Ukraine's final choice of rapprochement with NATO has already been made.

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