Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskky blasted NATO's failure to set a timetable for allowing Ukraine to join the military organization, calling the decision “absurd.”
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However, the United States and Germany urged caution. Biden said last week that Ukraine wasn’t ready to join. Members of NATO,, need to “meet all the qualifications, from democratization to a whole range of other issues,” a nod toward longstanding concerns about governance and corruption in Kyiv. “Rumors of the death of NATO’s unity were greatly exaggerated,” Sullivan told reporters triumphantly on Tuesday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that NATO’s expansion is “one of the reasons that led to the current situation.”
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