Zelenskyy hints he could agree a ceasefire deal to end Ukraine war if Nato agrees to accept his country as a member – even if Putin doesn’t return land currently under Russian occupation

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has hinted he could agree a ceasefire deal to end the Ukraine war if Nato agrees to accept his country as a member.

In an interview with Sky News, the Ukrainian president suggested he was prepared to end the war in exchange for membership of the bloc.

He said if the Ukrainian territory he controls was taken ‘under the NATO umbrella’, he could return the rest, which is currently under Russian occupation, in a ‘diplomatic way’.

‘If we want to stop the hot phase of the war, we need to take under the NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control,’ Zelensky said.

‘We need to do it fast. And then on the [occupied] territory of Ukraine, Ukraine can get them back in a diplomatic way.’

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