Following the onset of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022, the Ukrainian government arrested and imprisoned communist youth leaders Aleksander Kononovich and his brother Mikhail Kononovich, accusing them of holding pro-Russian and pro-Belarusian political views
Why wouldn’t you want your nation tjnbe militarily defended?
Nothing wrong with that. Many geopolitical locations definitely need defenses
NATO has it’s issues with US & Turkey for starters but still it’s the only viable option for some places