Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also urged NATO leaders to immediately approve the uncontested parts of Ukraine for membership.

By John Irish and Tom Balmforth (Reuters) -Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has urged his NATO counterparts to issue an invitation to Kyiv at a meeting in Brussels next week to join the Western military alliance,

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has called on NATO counterparts to invite Kyiv to join the alliance. Although Ukraine accepts it cannot join until the war ends, an invitation would signal resistance to Russian goals.

"We believe that the invitation should be extended at this stage," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote in a letter to his NATO counterparts.

Ukraine has called on NATO to issue an invitation to join the Alliance at the summit scheduled for December 3-4 in Brussels, according to Reuters. In a letter seen by the agency, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha addressed his NATO counterparts.

President Volodymyr Zelensky stated in an interview with Sky News that Kyiv is prepared for a ceasefire, even without Russia giving up occupied Ukrainian territories. There is one condition: Ukraine must join NATO.

On Friday, 29 November, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a telephone call with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron. Source: Zelenskyy on Twitter (X), as reported by European Pravda Details: During the conversation,