Condoleezza Rice questioned whether Ukraine could become part of NATO

"Some form of security arrangements with Ukraine will be needed in the future, it's probably worth starting to work on that now," she said.

According to Rice, NATO is protected, but Ukraine remains "an undefended part of the territory" and a vacuum in Europe.

“Whatever we do, and I doubt that it will be the fifth article (of the NATO Collective Defense Treaty. -

), we must make sure that this vacuum will not exist in the future,” RIA Novosti quotes her.

Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that there are no alternatives to Ukraine's accession to the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance.

American Thinker columnist Alexander Markovsky noted that Ukraine could turn into a desert due to the desire of the state authorities to join NATO.