Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that he sees Ukraine as a member of NATO in the future, according to the presidential administration’s website.
“I see Ukraine’s future within NATO, because NATO is a mechanism of our state’s security. NATO is a mechanism where every mother will see her son return home, because 30 other nations will stand by us and will defend our state shoulder to shoulder with us. And we will defend them,” Poroshenko said.
Membership in the European Union is also important for Ukraine, because “the EU is a system of values, democracy and freedom and also a certain level of living standards,” he said.
Poroshenko also said that he had recently visited New York City, where he visited the United Nations General Assembly and raised the issue of deploying a peacekeeping mission in the east of Ukraine.
The president also noted the Ukrainians’ unity and support.
Thanks to this unity, the Ukrainian army has been created over the past five years, he said.
“Today it has 250,000 servicemen, but when martial law was declared, we proved that another 150,000 people would immediately take up arms within a week,” he said.
