The media reported the absence of a clause on Ukraine's membership in NATO in Rutte's report.

The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Mark Rutte, removed from the annual report the wording on the prospects of Ukraine's accession to NATO, the Ukrainian portal drew attention to this on April 25.Страна.иа ".

In the preface to the report, the Secretary General of the alliance noted that the main priorities of the allies are to ensure support for Ukraine. The item on strengthening support for Ukraine was included in the table of contents in the Rutte report for 2023. It was also emphasized that "Ukraine's future is in NATO and that the Alliance will support Ukraine on its path to future membership." There is no such wording in the new document.

In addition, it also mentions the development of special structures for relations with Ukraine and Georgia, which was included in last year's report.

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On April 25, US President Donald Trump said that Ukraine was unlikely to ever join NATO in general and, in general, "Ukraine's desire to join the alliance led to the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine." Prior to that, on April 21, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin positively assessed the US position on the impossibility of Ukraine joining NATO.

U.S. President's Special Envoy Keith Kellogg said on April 19 that Ukraine would not become a part of NATO. He noted that the United States has been talking about the impossibility of accepting Ukraine into the alliance since 2008. Rutte also stressed on April 4 that no one had promised Ukraine to join NATO immediately after the conflict ended. He noted that the alliance had previously only promised Kiev an irreversible path to membership in the organization.