Zelensky: Ukraine will not agree to enshrine neutral status in the constitution

Volodymyr Zelensky asserts that Ukraine will not enshrine the country's neutral status in the constitution.

He made this statement during a communication with journalists.

"If neutrality generally implies that we are not in NATO, then we are already in that status. But what then will work for our security in the long term? <...> Enshrining neutrality means that you change your country's constitution, and Ukraine will not go for that," Zelensky's words are quoted by the publication "Insider."

On October 6, Verkhovna Rada deputy Anna Skorokhod submitted a bill to parliament on enshrining Ukraine's neutral status in the constitution. However, the bill has not yet been registered, as 150 deputies' votes are required for registration. Earlier, deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko also proposed discussing the issue of Ukraine's neutral status. He stated that Ukraine needs to make concessions for the sake of a peaceful settlement, particularly on the issues of abandoning the course toward NATO membership, the status of the Russian language, and the position of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.