Russia’s aggressive policy has led to the invigoration of NATO structures and forced it to demonstrate its ability to act decisively, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze has said.
In her article for the ZN.UA publication, the official noted in contrast to the European Union, which is experiencing a systemic crisis, NATO today is only strengthening.
According to her, today no one in NATO has illusions about the events in Ukraine.
She stressed Ukraine’s integration into NATO is a way to create a modern efficient army.
“This process is already underway, and cooperation with NATO now plays a key role in it,” she wrote.
Klympush-Tsintsadze also noted NATO standards include not only a strong army, but also a transparent defense budget, elimination of corruption in public procurement for defense needs, technical re-equipment of the troops and readiness for new types of threats, generating a hybrid type of war.
