WASHINGTON: The United States won't make special arrangements for Ukraine to join the NATO military alliance, President Joe Biden said Saturday (Jun 17), despite Russia's invasion. 'They've got to meet the same standards. So we're not going to make it easy,' the US president told reporters near Washington.
NATO nations in eastern Europe have pushed for a better roadmap for Ukraine to obtain membership, but key allies like the United States and Germany have been reluctant to go much beyond a vague 2014 pledge that Kyiv will join one day.
NATO countries have already supplied weaponry worth tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine since Moscow launched its all-out invasion last February.
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