After Russia annexed four regions of Ukraine in September amid its ongoing invasion of the eastern European country, Ukraine announced it had signed an accelerated application to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
“We are de facto allies. This has already been achieved,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a speech on Sept. 30. “Today, Ukraine is applying to make it de jure…Under an accelerated procedure. We understand that this requires the consensus of all members of the alliance.”
That ain’t gonna happen any time soon.
