Ukraine asks for invitation to NATO next week — Reuters — Politics

Kyiv's desire to receive an invitation to join NATO is part of Zelensky's “victory plan.”

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga has called on his NATO colleagues to extend an invitation to Kyiv to join the alliance during a meeting in Brussels next week.

This is stated in the text of the letter, which was obtained by the Reuters agency on Friday, November 29.

In this letter, the head of Ukraine's foreign policy department states that Ukraine accepts that it cannot join NATO until the war is over, but that extending the invitation now will demonstrate to Russian President Vladimir Putin that one of his main goals is to prevent Kyiv from becoming a NATO member. — cannot be reached.

“This will be an adequate response of the allies to the constant escalation of the war unleashed by Russia, the last…