President Joe Biden says Ukraine is “not ready” to join NATO despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent push to join the treaty organization.
Ahead of Biden’s trip to a NATO summit in Lithuania, Zelenskyy said during an interview that it is wholly in Biden’s power to advance the eastern European nation’s membership with NATO. Many in Ukraine support such a move, but western leaders fear that, due to the nature of NATO treaty obligations, this would immediately embroil all of Europe in a war with Russia.
