Ukraine joining NATO in the midst of a war 'not on the agenda' - Stoltenberg

FILE PHOTO: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg attends talks at Ramstein U.S. Air Base, Germany, April 21, 2023. REUTERS/Heiko Becker/File Photo

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ukraine will not be able to join NATO as long as the war is going on, the alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.

"I think that everyone realized that, to become a member in the midst of a war, is not on the agenda," he said at an event organized by the German Marshall Fund of The United States in Brussels. "The issue is what happens when the war ends."

(Reporting by Sabine Siebold and Andrew Gray, Editing by Charlotte Van Campenhout)