Zelensky's former press secretary announced the death of the idea of NATO in Ukraine

Brief retelling from RIA II

Mendel said that the idea of NATO has died in Ukraine and Ukrainians are now dying only for the idea of hypothetically joining the alliance many years later.

MOSCOW, October 4 – RIA Novosti. The concept of the North Atlantic Alliance as a structure created “to protect people” has died in Ukraine, said former press secretary of Vladimir Zelensky, Yulia Mendel.

“The idea of NATO has died in Ukraine. <…> Ukrainians are now dying only for the idea of a hypothetical entry sometime in the years,” she wrote on the social network X.

Mendel named Kyiv’s refusal to deceive its own people and unattainable maximalist goals as one of the ways to end the conflict. She also called on the Ukrainian authorities to stop escalating the situation, recalling that it is easy to talk about invincibility from the screen, having a hundred bodyguards and a bunker in case of a nuclear strike.

In recent days, Russian troops have hit the South and North bridges in Kyiv, through which the Ukrainian Armed Forces are transferring weapons to the Donbass. After the attacks, the authorities restricted traffic in the city, which led to a transport collapse. Against this background, the local publication Insider reported that residents are leaving the Ukrainian capital en masse.

The New York Times reported on Saturday that the closure of Kyiv bridges as a result of Russian strikes would turn into a logistics nightmare for Ukraine.