The NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) that they are trying to impose on Ukraine is a substitute for the real process of joining the alliance, which could delay our membership for many years. Alena Hetmanchuk, director of the New Europe Center, draws attention to this in the article “Ukraine - NATO: mistakes of Budapest and Bucharest should be corrected in Vilnius”.

“It is important for us to finally not only get a destination, but also lay a route to this point. Without the MAP and its new analogues, which are de facto being created for Ukraine in certain Western capitals as another substitute for the real process of joining NATO - instead of finally inviting Ukraine to the Alliance and launching the corresponding process of accession, despite the ongoing aggression,”.

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At the same time, one should be careful with the argument that NATO allegedly “cannot” accept a country in which active hostilities are taking place, Hetmanchuk notes..

" Those who push such an idea are in fact encouraging Putin to develop a scenario in which hostilities in one form or another will last, if not for decades, then for years, ”the expert emphasized..

According to Hetmanchuk, in order for Russian military aggression to stop as soon as possible, Ukraine should receive an invitation to join NATO and start accession negotiations as early as July..