Ukraine has not heard any proposals to exchange occupied territories for NATO membership. Otherwise, “very bad things” would have been done, states Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. Ukraine’s Defense Minister noted that he had not previously heard any proposals for Kyiv to give up occupied territories in exchange for NATO membership. “No, I haven’t heard anything like that. If such a proposal had been made, I would have certainly… done some very bad things,” Umerov said. It’s worth noting that recent media reports mentioned possible proposals from the West for Ukraine to abandon Russ…