NATO Chief of Staff, Stian Jenssen, admitted on Wednesday that his controversial comments suggesting that Ukraine may gain membership in the alliance in exchange for ceding some territory to Russia was a “mistake.”
Jenssen told Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang: “My statement about this was part of a larger discussion about possible future scenarios in Ukraine, and I shouldn't have said it that way. It was a mistake.”
He added: “If, and I emphasized if, you get to the point where you can negotiate, the military situation on the ground will be absolutely central, and will have a decisive influence on how a possible outcome of this war will look.”
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Ukrainian Presidential Adviser Mikhail Podoliak rejected the idea of abandoning his country’s territorial claims in exchange for NATO membership. The only solution, he declared, is the West “speeding up the supply of weapons”.
“Trading territory for a NATO umbrella? It is ridiculous,” Podoliak wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday, adding, “If [ Russian President Vladimir] Putin does not suffer a crushing defeat, the political regime in Russia does not change, and war criminals are not punished, the war will definitely return with Russia’s appetite for more.”
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