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Joe Biden to travel to Brussels for NATO summit next week
The USA Today reported, the White House said on Tuesday that President Joe Biden will travel to Brussels for a March 24 NATO summit on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Also Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, Ukrainians must realize that the country will not be joining NATO and must "count on ourselves and our partners who are helping us" to withstand the Russian onslaught.
Zelenskyy, speaking to representatives of the U.K.-led Joint Expeditionary Force, said Ukraine has heard for years about "the allegedly open doors” of NATO but acknowledged his country will not be able to join. Instead, his nation needs separate security guarantees from its allies.
Zelenskyy had been a strong supporter of Ukraine's efforts to join NATO. Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has called for a guarantee that Ukraine would never join NATO among terms for an end to the war.
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Still, Zelenskyy has repeatedly called for NATO to set up a no-fly zone above Ukraine to ease aerial assault from Russian that have decimated Ukraine cities since the invasion began Feb. 24. And he said Tuesday that Europe could “help yourself by helping us” with more military aid. He said that the Ukrainian military is using up weapons and ammunition meant to last a week in 20 hours.
Source: usatoday
