Referring to NATO membership, Zelensky said through an interpreter that he does not want to be president of a “country which is begging something on its knees.”<\/p>\n
Russia has said it does not want neighboring Ukraine to join NATO, the transatlantic alliance created at the start of the Cold War to protect Europe from the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
In more recent years the alliance has expanded further and further east to take in former Soviet bloc countries, infuriating the Kremlin.<\/p>\n
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