I think that the sort of sequence would be: EU membership first, and NATO membership second,
Don’t hang everything on getting an invitation now. It is going to happen. It’s a step by step process. Russia wanted to avoid at all cost getting NATO to its borders. It got Finland, it got Sweden, it will get Ukraine and all of those countries that want to join the Alliance,
But the timing has to be right. We all know that a country that is at war cannot become a member of NATO,