Ukraine Seeks NATO Membership Invitation
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has asked his NATO counterparts to invite Ukraine to join the alliance. This comes during a meeting in Brussels next week, as reported by Reuters on November 29.
Sybiha wrote a letter urging NATO members to endorse the decision to invite Ukraine to join the Alliance. He mentioned that a NATO invitation would be an adequate response to Russia’s constant escalation of the war it has unleashed. Sybiha also pointed out recent attacks against Ukraine, including a new intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) called Oreshnik.
Ukraine submitted its application to join NATO in September 2022. In July 2024, NATO affirmed Ukraine’s “irreversible path to full Euro-Atlantic integration,” but no definitive news has been given about Ukraine’s future accession.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine will only join NATO after Russia’s full-scale war ends. However, inviting Kyiv to the alliance now would demonstrate to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he failed to achieve one of his main goals – to prevent Kyiv from joining NATO.
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