After 4 years of war waged by Ukraine, including for its own right to become a NATO member, it was told at the end of the war that there had never been any intention to admit Ukraine to alliance, said today Speaker of the Parliament.

"We understood this after the 2008 Bucharest Summit; every year we heard about the `open door` and that Ukraine and Georgia would definitely become NATO members. Every year Ukraine was told that it would certainly become a member, and now it has become clear that, apparently, they never actually wanted Ukraine to join NATO at all.

There are two explanations for this. One is naivety, which some Western politicians may have had. And the 2nd is harmful intent - to encourage a country, to create the perception that it is right there, already standing at the threshold of an open door, just a little more and it will step in, and thus, emboldened by this, to go toward any kind of escalation, as Saakashvili did in 2008, and as we have seen many times in Ukraine. In the end, when it came down to it - when war began - not a single NATO soldier stood in a trench. This is the truth that we are, unfortunately, once again seeing today", - said Shalva Papuashvili.