Ukraine asks NATO for membership invite next week

Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident

No one has offered us to be in NATO for one part or another part of Ukraine. The fact is, it is a solution to stop the hot stage of the war because we can just give NATO membership to the part of Ukraine that is under our control,

Zelensky said

If we want to stop the hot phase of the war, we need to take under the NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control,

he told Ramsay

The invitation should not be seen as an escalation,

Sybiha wrote in the letter

We have sent a message to the allies that invitation is not off of the table, regardless of different manipulations and speculations around that,

she told Reuters

On the contrary, with a clear understanding that Ukraine's membership in NATO is inevitable, Russia will lose one of its main arguments for continuing this unjustified war,

he wrote

We believe that the invitation should be extended at this stage,

he wrote

It will become the Allies' adequate response to Russia's constant escalation of the war it has unleashed, the latest demonstration of which is the involvement of tens of thousands of North Korean troops and the use of Ukraine as a testing ground for new weapons,

Sybiha added

I urge you to endorse the decision to invite Ukraine to join the Alliance as one of the outcomes of the NATO Foreign Ministerial Meeting on 3-4 December 2024,

he wrote