“Now this issue is not being considered,” TASS quoted Austin as saying in an interview with Fox News.
He noted that he would not like to "speculate on this topic."
As Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk said earlier, Kyiv will not change the points on plans to join the North Atlantic Alliance prescribed in the Ukrainian Constitution.
After that, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that those agreements that were somehow not previously fixed, but discussed during meetings between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine, “were immediately disavowed by those people who represent the Kyiv regime, but at the same time do not belong to the negotiators ".
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted that the country cannot join NATO.