Precondition for end to conflict: NATO should never be in Ukraine

Global Times' note: The Russia-Ukraine conflict is approaching its one-year mark, with no end in sight. It is eating up scarce European resources, preventing millions of refugees from returning home and weakening the global economic outlook while the United States and some European countries are fanning the flames of the war, keeping sending weapons to Ukraine. How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict end? What are the biggest stumbling blocks for negotiation and diplomatic resolution?

In an interview, George Galloway, six-term British member of parliament, told Global Times reporter Li Aixin that a precondition to an end of conflict "is not just that Ukraine will never apply to join NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). It's that NATO will never be in Ukraine, neither their weapons nor their personnel, nor their geostrategic worldview."