Finnish President Alexander Stubb outlined three stages that, in his opinion, Ukraine must go through to achieve peace. At the Munich Security Conference (MSC) he emphasized that there is no debate about Ukraine's membership in the EU and NATO,

Russia on Tuesday demanded NATO scrap its 2008 promise to one day give Ukraine membership of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance and dismissed the idea that NATO member forces could be keepers of the peace under some sort of ceasefire deal.