NATO floats Ukraine membership as Stoltenberg meets with Zelensky

Western powers will put Ukraine on “an irreversible path towards NATO membership,” according to the civilian chief of the alliance, who visited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky amid admitted Western shortcomings even in delivering air defense systems to fend off Russia’s attacks.

“The work we are undertaking now puts you on an irreversible path towards NATO membership,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in Kyiv. “So that when the time is right, Ukraine can become a NATO member straightaway.”