No third country has a veto on Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO. This was insisted on by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at a press conference following yesterday’s visit to Kyiv, when he was asked about Russia’s objections to Ukraine’s accession to the Western military alliance, Reuters reports.
Austin stressed: “No third country has the right to veto a decision on NATO membership. Ukraine, as you have heard my words before, has the right to determine its own future foreign policy, and we expect that they will be able to do so without any foreign policy. intervention”.
Austin also noted that Russia has started a conflict in eastern Ukraine and is an obstacle to its peaceful resolution.