Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commented on the country’s possibility of joining NATO at a news conference on Tuesday, according to local media.
We are not invited to NATO. Signals on partial membership are, frankly speaking, nonsense.
Kyiv would never “admit that some part of Ukraine will join NATO”, the president added.
On Tuesday, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen arrived in the United States for the first time on an official visit, speaking at the Hudson Institute and expressing a “strong commitment to the Alliance.” She also commented on Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO.
“Ukraine continues to need the support of the international community. The US contribution has and will be key. Together, the bilateral, NATO and EU efforts will ensure that Ukraine is in the strongest possible position when the war ends.”
During the news conference in Kyiv, Zelensky also announced that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) had requested to mobilise another 450,000-500,000 people.
Earlier on Tuesday, General Oleksandr Tarnavsky admitted that the army was forced to scale back some operations due to delays in Western support. He added that troops faced an acute shortage of ammunition along “the entire front line”, which posed a “big problem” for further combat operations.
