Ukraine ‘still has work to do’ for NATO membership: it needs to carry out appropriate reforms and fulfil security conditions, US presidential national security adviser Jake Sullivan told journalists, RBC Ukraine quoted him as saying.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 16 October presented in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a ‘victory plan’, one of the points of which is to invite the country to NATO. In his opinion, if this initiative is implemented, hostilities will be over by 2025. Later, he called membership in the alliance a security guarantee alternative to nuclear weapons.
‘There is still work to be done to get there, including reforms and security conditions. So, the question is how to build a bridge from where we are now to Ukraine’s eventual NATO membership,’ Jake Sullivan said.
The US presidential adviser added that Washington’s position on this issue remains unchanged, they see Ukraine in NATO in the future. He also emphasised that US President Joe Biden is trying to provide Kiev with long-term support.
We shall remind you that earlier US entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk called it a problem that the US authorities have no goal in the conflict in Ukraine.
