“Ukraine will become a member of NATO. Our purpose of the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership and to create a clear pathway for Ukraine moving forward.”
On Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters that "Ukraine will become a member of NATO."
"Ukraine, the determination of every country represented here at NATO remains rock solid. We will do everything we can, allies will do everything that they can, to ensure that Ukraine has what it needs to continue to deal with Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine, an aggression that gets worse with every passing day. Ukraine will become a member of NATO. Our purpose of the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership and to create a clear pathway for Ukraine moving forward."
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View on XUkrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said, "of course we believe that Ukraine deserves to be a member of NATO and that this should happen sooner rather than later."
Article 5 of NATO’s treaty states that "an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all."
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned in February that NATO countries "must, in the end, understand" that "all this truly threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons, and therefore the destruction of civilization."
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