[Skybird]

I think they are going after something more substantial than just any NATO declaration that I would rule out to ever be given anyway. They want to boost their stand and influenc ein the Ukraine. By proxy forces gianign influence, by a puppet regime installed as the BBC claimed they plan to do, or gaining further ground. They are not dumb, they knew from day one on that their demand that NATO should pull out of Eastern Europe and should declare formal ends to any future NATO expansion to the east, would not be accepted. If NATO would do that, it could quit and dismantle itself immediately, becasue it then would only be mentioned as a joke anymore.

Could also be that they want the Ukraine to be divided.