“A country in a state of war cannot become a member of NATO,” said Scholz, who assured that the decision on Ukraine was already taken at the summits of the bloc that met in Washington and Vilnius, and there is no need for a new ruling at the moment.

The chancellor said that everyone knows this and there is no disagreement on the matter, and added that an invitation to the alliance is usually followed fairly quickly by accession, but that this process is not underway now.

Earlier, the permanent representative of the United States to the alliance, Julian Smith, declared that NATO leaders did not consider Ukraine’s accession to the alliance possible at the moment, not even within a timeline invitation.

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