Washington won't make special arrangements for Ukraine to join NATO, U.S. President Joe Biden said on June 17, despite Russia's invasion. "They've got to meet the same standards. So we're not going to make it easy," he told reporters. NATO leaders, who are set to meet in Lithuania next month, are aiming to hold a first session of a NATO-Ukraine Council with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Vilnius. But alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said that although NATO will tighten political ties with Ukraine at the summit, there will be no immediate talk of membership for Kyiv.
Ukraine Won't Have An 'Easy' Path To Join NATO, Biden Says
U.S. President Joe Biden (right) meets with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on June 13.