Kuleba to BBC: “Dealing with Putin? Impossible”
Sit down at some point to deal with Putin? “No, that’s impossible: I’m saying it in an undiplomatic way”: These were the last words of an interview that Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba gave last night for the BBC program “Hard Talk” from London, at the urging of the interviewer Stephen Sackur. after some hesitation in answering. When asked if it is true that Volodymyr Zelenskyy has no intention of going to the NATO summit in Vilnius in July because he has not received enough offers in the process of joining the alliance due to the reluctance of some states, including Germany To cut the time, Kuleba replied that after the war, Kiev’s full membership of NATO would be a guarantee of strength and security on Europe’s eastern flank: a burden Germany now carried on its shoulders.
Regarding Western fears of an “escalation” in the conflict, which have delayed key decisions such as those over F-16 deliveries, and fears fueled by threats from Moscow, Kuleba replied: “Putin doesn’t need a direct reason to to create something.” an escalation,” as evidenced by the invasion of Ukraine itself and, more recently, the catastrophic destruction of the Kakhovka Dam. Finally, regarding the sanctions against Russia, Kuleba responded to the objection that they are not working, that “they are working”, but that they are not yet strict enough, although he is aware of the difficulties that many countries have in further tightening .