‘NATO is frightened of a battle with Russia,’ says Ukraine’s president

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that he will no longer push for Ukraine’s membership in NATO, a sensitive topic that was one of Russia’s claimed reasons for invading its pro-Western neighbor. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has stated that he would no longer push for Ukraine’s participation in NATO. One of Russia’s claimed justifications for invading its pro-Western neighbor was the question of Nato membership. “I have cooled off on this topic a long time ago when we realized it,” Zelenskaya says.