Zelenskyy presses EU for ‘immediate invitation’ to join Nato

Ukrainian membership would be part of five-point victory plan' to end war, president tells Brussels summit

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged European leaders to issue an immediate invitation" to Ukraine to join Nato as he pitched his victory plan", which he said would end the war in 2025 at the latest.

Addressing the EU's 27 leaders at a Brussels summit, Ukraine's president outlined his five-point plan, which urges allies to lift restrictions on the use of long-range weapons on military targets inside Ukraine's occupied territories and Russia, as well as to help increase air defences.