In February 2019, just two months before Volodymyr Zelensky won the presidency, parliament enshrined Ukraine’s NATO aspirations in the country’s constitution. Now, the president must serve as a “guarantor of the country’s strategic course to acquire membership in the EU and NATO,” and any attempts by the head of state to consider alternative security policies for Ukraine would be unconstitutional—a far cry from Kyiv’s intention to “become a permanently neutral state” as articulated in its 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty.