Ukraine should not expect significant progress regarding its NATO membership application at the upcoming Alliance summit in Washington. Source: Politico, citing the UK Ambassador to NATO David Quarrey, as reported by European Pravda Details: Members of the Alliance will gather in the capital of the United States on 9-11 July, and although the question of Ukraine's NATO membership is likely to be discussed, Quarrey stated that Kyiv should lower its expectations.
Senior U.S. lawmakers asked Hungary on Feb. 1 to "immediately approve" Sweden's NATO membership bid, warning of "permanent damage" to the relationship between Budapest and Washington, according to Reuters.
NATO should extend an invitation to Ukraine at the Washington Summit in July, as it could serve as “an instrument” to ending Russia’s war, the alliance’s former Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on Jan. 30 in Kyiv. “But that's an extremely dangerous argument to use because it gives (Russian President Vladimir) Putin an incentive to continue his war to prevent Ukrainian membership of NATO.”