Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Friday for NATO to offer guaranteed protections to parts of Ukraine controlled by Kyiv in order to "stop the hot stage of the war." Zelenskyy also implied he would be willing to wait to regain the almost one-fifth of his country that Russia's army has seized,

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that he is prepared to end the war in Ukraine in exchange for Nato membership. President Zelenskyy said that such a proposal had "never been considered" because it had never "officially" been offered. He said membership would have to be offered to unoccupied parts of Ukraine to end the "hot phase of the war".