Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Ukraine should be granted the security of NATO without the actual membership in the military alliance.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has proposed extending the application of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty to Ukraine without its official accession to NATO. She believes this would provide long-term and effective security for Ukraine.

Ukraine may receive NATO-level security guarantees without formal membership, Italian PM Giorgia Meloni suggested. Speaking at an EU summit, she dismissed the idea of deploying European peacekeepers,