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It's exactly what Putin feared before February 2022 and it will be something to cheer about.Kyiv says they'll accept no substitutes to NATO membership. Nor should they.
"Having the bitter experience of the Budapest Memorandum behind us, we will not settle for any alternatives, surrogates, or substitutes for Ukraine's full membership in NATO,"
Perfectly understandable.