“At the NATO meeting, they are going to repeat that the doors of the alliance remain open, but ... now is not the time for Ukraine to join,” Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the situation.
It is noted that the members of the alliance were wary of a repeated request from Ukraine, as the bloc's collective defense obligations could draw them into a direct conflict with Russia.
"The prospect of Ukraine's membership in NATO has repeatedly been called by President Vladimir Putin a threat to Moscow," the agency stressed.
On November 26, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Belgian Prime Minister Alexandre de Croo signed a declaration in Kyiv supporting Ukraine's membership in the EU and NATO.
Earlier, the Polish ambassador to the alliance, Tomasz Shatkovsky, said that many NATO countries were faced with the devastation of weapons and military equipment depots, which they transfer to Ukraine.
Kuleba, in an interview with Politico, said that some states refuse to sell weapons to Ukraine for political reasons.