President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that the issue of Ukraine's potential membership in NATO should not be excluded from the process of negotiations on ending the war. Source: Zelenskyy in an interview with German public broadcaster ARD,

The issue of Ukraine's potential NATO membership cannot be excluded from the negotiation process on ending the war. Additionally, ending the war in Ukraine could lead to a situation similar to Afghanistan in 2021,

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.