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Ukraine may have to agree to cede some territory currently occupied by Russia if it wants to join NATO.
According to Stian Jenssen, who serves as chief of staff to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, was speaking to Norwegian media at a panel discussion earlier today.
Stoltenberg has long carefully avoided questions about what Ukraine might need to do to end the war. His position has consistently been that it is up to Ukraine - not third parties - to decide how and when negotiations with Russia should begin.
But as Jenssen repeated this line, he offered clues that Ukraine may indeed have a path to NATO.
" There is considerable movement on the question of future NATO membership for Ukraine. It is in everyone's interest that the war does not happen again. Russia is fighting extremely hard militarily and it seems unrealistic that they can take new territories. Now it is more rather a matter of what Ukraine manages to get ," he said.
When asked by Norwegian newspaper VG whether Ukraine should cede land to achieve peace and get NATO membership in return, Jenssen suggested that the question has already been raised within the alliance.
" I'm not saying it has to be like this. But this could be a possible solution ," he said.
But this solution would directly contradict President Zelensky's own stated goals for peace.
One of the 10 points in his so-called peace formula includes restoring Ukraine's borders to where they were before the invasion. The Ukrainian president has made it clear that this is non-negotiable./ SkyNews
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