{"id":216549,"date":"2025-12-10T09:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=216549"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:33:23","slug":"zelensky-admits-ukraine-currently-lacks-conditions-to-reclaim-crimea-or-join-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/216549\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky admits Ukraine currently lacks conditions to reclaim Crimea or join NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reiterated his long-standing position that Ukraine would like to reclaim Crimea and join NATO, but acknowledged that conditions for either are not currently in place, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/rus\/news\/2025\/12\/09\/8011134\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pravda.com.ua<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are fully aware that neither the U.S. nor several other countries, frankly, yet see Ukraine as part of NATO. And Russia, of course, will never see us there,&rdquo; Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And today, regarding Crimea, we do not have the strength to fully restore our Ukrainian Crimea peninsula.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reiterated his long-standing position that Ukraine would like to reclaim Crimea and join NATO, but acknowledged that conditions for either are not currently in place, pravda.com.ua reports. &ldquo;We are fully aware that neither the U.S. nor several other countries, frankly, yet see Ukraine as part of NATO. And Russia, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":216523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216551,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216549\/revisions\/216551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}