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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dalvinder45" data-source="post: 226173" data-attributes="member: 26009">Key developments on Dec. 28 - 29 are  (a) Ukraine prioritizing security guarantees over immediate NATO membership, senior diplomat says (b) Russia must admit guilt over downing Azerbaijani airliner, pay compensation, Azerbaijan's president says (c) Ukraine secures over $156 million for defense industry from European allies, defense minister says (d) Russia rejects Trump team's reported peace deal proposals on Ukraine, FM Lavrov says (e) Greece to deliver 24 Sea Sparrow missiles to Ukraine, media reportsUkraine’s accession to NATO remains on the agenda but diplomatic efforts currently focus on obtaining strong security guarantees, Andrii Melnyk, Ukraine’s newly-appointed envoy to the U.N., told Berliner Morgenpost on Dec. 27.Ukrainian officials have consistently prrsented NATO membership as the only way toward a just and lasting peace in Ukraine, though acknowledging that the entry itself is unlikely before a ceasefire.Melnyk emphasized that Ukraine's current focus is on securing robust guarantees for its defense rather than pursuing NATO membership in the immediate term.This comes as an apparent shift in rhetoric after the Foreign Ministry rejected any security guarantees that would substitute full membership in the alliance earlier this month."Our partners should carefully write down what military means they will use to defend Ukraine if Russia attacks again," Melnyk said, highlighting the need for guarantees beyond "purely political promises" like the Budapest Memorandum.Holes and pockmarks on the plane, an arrest and history are all prompting suspicion of Russia for a crash that left 38 people dead. The analysis by these experts comes amid <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/27/azerbaijan-probe-finds-russian-missile-caused-deadly-crash-reports-say" target="_blank">mounting reports</a> quoting unnamed Azerbaijani officials and other analysts pointing fingers at Russia for the crash, in which at least 38 people were killed.The Kremlin claimed that the AZAL 8432 flight with 67 passengers on board hit a flock of birds early Wednesday after it entered Russian airspace to land in Grozny, Chechnya’s administrative capital.But within hours, photos and videos of the plane surfaced, apparently showing deep holes and multiple pockmarks on its tail.The damage is similar to that caused by a strike by Pantsir-S1, a Soviet-era defence system Chechnya uses to repel Ukrainian drone attacks, say experts. At the time, Chechen air defence forces were repelling an attack by Ukrainian drones, claiming to have shot down “all of them”.</blockquote>

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