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Boris: Get Ukraine into Nato ASAP

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Boris Johnson’s post-premiership crusade continues. The former PM has today attacked Nato for being too soft on Ukraine’s accession. The alliance decided earlier this week that any invitation would be handed out only once ‘conditions are met’ (Svitlana Morenets has more here).

Johnson writes in his Daily Mail column:

No country is in greater need of Nato membership. All the Alliance needed to do was to set out a timetable — not for instant membership; that makes no sense as long as the war is live — but for membership as soon as victory is won.

It comes after an interview with CNN earlier this week where Johnson said there was ‘no excuse or reason to continue faffing around’ on whether Ukraine should join Nato. It’s a popular, though by no means majority view in the West. There is concern that a premature invitation for Ukraine to join Nato would mean a more direct contest between Russia and the western alliance.

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