After an emergency meeting of the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded rapid membership of Kiev in NATO, after Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed 4 regions of Ukraine.
"We have reached the standards of the Alliance. We are taking a decisive step by signing Ukraine's request for accelerated NATO membership," Zelensky said in a video posted by the Ukrainian Presidency on social networks.
Meanwhile, he has said after the Security Council that there will be talks with Russia only when the president is changed, closing any possibility, no matter how small, of a meeting with Putin.
"Our country has always tried to live together in equal and honest, dignified and fair conditions."
"He does not know what dignity and honesty are. That is why we are ready for dialogue with Russia, but with a different president. He does not know what dignity and honesty are," said Zelensky.