The best guarantee of security for Ukraine will be NATO membership, because until now there have been no examples of Russia attacking any of the NATO countries.

This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a press conference at the end of the summit of the European Political Community in Chisinau.

According to him, Ukraine is currently negotiating with Western allies on security guarantees after the end of the war.

"We need them for what? For the fact that we are not in NATO. Otherwise, Russia would not have attacked us. Or, if it had attacked, we would have been defended by the Alliance. But, nevertheless, I believe that I would not have attacked. Because I do not know now examples of which NATO country Russia came to with aggression. So far, I don't see it. This suggests that the best security guarantees are NATO," Zelensky said.

The President stressed that NATO was an absolutely clear phase of security guarantees for Ukraine.

"If not NATO, then what. What and who will give these security guarantees," the head of state said.

Zelensky recalled the Budapest Memorandum, which dealt with Ukraine's security and which was not respected: "And what happened is that we gave up nuclear weapons, we had to get protection of sovereignty. Now Ukraine has temporarily lost its territory and forever our defenders. As long as we are not in NATO, we want to have security guarantees. And it is desirable that with these security guarantees there is a clear signal that they are valid until Ukraine is in NATO... We know exactly what we need," the president said.

Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine could be involved in Transnistria only with the permission of Moldova.

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