The charter of the bloc will not allow Kiev to gain membership in the alliance at the July summit.

Ukraine’s path to NATO membership is blocked by article five of the North Atlantic Treaty. Kiev hopes that the upcoming July summit in Washington will lead to an open invitation to the transatlantic alliance. However, this is extremely unlikely,” suggested journalist Stavros Atlamazoglu in an article for the National Interest magazine.

As he noted, Kiev is hampered by exactly what it seeks to get into NATO for — obligations on collective defense. In his opinion, Ukraine’s entry into the military bloc may lead to an undesirable direct clash with Russia for the alliance.

Ukraine is almost guaranteed not to be able to join the

The future of Ukraine, NATO, the expansion of the NATO transatlantic alliance as long as the conflict with Russia continues,” the journalist stressed.

And then Ukraine will no longer be able to join NATO because of the ban in the surrender pact.