This includes Belgium, Hungary, Germany, Spain, the USA, Slovenia, and Slovakia. Germany and the USA have declared their position at the level of President Joe Biden and Chancellor Olaf Scholz, while the governments of Hungary and Slovakia have taken a clearly pro-Kremlin stance. In contrast, Belgium, Slovenia, and Spain express their views passively, "hiding behind" the USA and Germany, according to the article.
On the morning of December 3, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine announced ahead of the NATO foreign ministers' meeting that Ukraine will not accept security guarantees that replace NATO membership.
A statement obtained by "European Truth" indicated that "the only real security guarantee for Ukraine, as well as a deterrent against further Russian aggression towards Ukraine and other states, is only full membership of Ukraine in NATO. [...] With the bitter experience of the Budapest Memorandum behind us, we will not accept any alternatives, surrogates, or substitutes for full NATO membership for Ukraine."