In the " This opinion was expressed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in an interview with Welt.

“In Bucharest in 2008, NATO took decisions that set out a long-term vision. Everyone knows that this will not happen in the foreseeable future.. Also because there are a number of conditions in the NATO criteria that Ukraine cannot yet fulfill,” Scholz said, answering a question, theoretically would support Ukraine’s entry into the North Atlantic Alliance after the war.

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Recall, the head of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, considers former German Chancellor Angela Merkel responsible for starting the war in Ukraine.. In one of her interviews, she noted that in 2008 NATO had many who supported Ukraine's entry into the Alliance, but Germany and France then opposed.

According to Struck-Zimmermann, the fact that Ukraine did not become a member of NATO “was a big mistake that the French and Angela Merkel made then.”. In particular, in 2008 Ukrainians were promised an early entry into the North Atlantic Alliance.. However, the project failed because Merkel and the then head of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, opposed respect for Russia, which has now unleashed a war against Ukraine.. Moreover, Merkel defended her decision 14 years ago after the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. She still thinks she did the right thing.