"In terms of Ukraine itself, President Biden, the Germans, and others, the French, are not willing to give Ukraine membership right now," Ariel Cohen, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, told CNBC.
"President Biden said after the war is over Ukraine will get the membership," he said.
Does that commit NATO to a war against Russia to liberate the Ukrainian territory?
As a result of that, NATO does not accept new member states that are currently at war or have land occupied by an adversarial power.
"When we applied for membership of NATO, we spoke frankly: de facto, Ukraine is already in the alliance," he said.
Persons:
Kyiv's, Biden, Ariel Cohen, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Natasha Turak
Organizations:
U.S, NATO, Council's Eurasia Center, CNBC
Locations:
Ukraine, Vilnius, Lithuania, Russia, Ukrainian, United States, France, Germany, NATO, facto, … Vilnius