The Ukrainian publication “European Truth” reports this.

“Because they cannot collect 500 million, and so they will need to collect 20 billion a year in the current model,” RIA Novosti quotes the minister.

At the same time, Kuleba emphasized that this idea “has the right to exist and a chance of implementation” if “it is possible to calculate the formula” for the mandatory participation of each NATO member in financing.

Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance does not intend to send combat units to Ukraine.

Also, the head of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy, Alexey Pushkov, called the decision to create a NATO mission in Ukraine a “creeping introduction” of the alliance into Ukraine.