Meloni Backs Giving Ukraine NATO Security Without Membership

Giorgia Meloni following a special European Council meeting in Brussels on March 6.

Photographer: Simon Wohlfahrt/Bloomberg
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Ukraine should be granted the security of NATO without the actual membership in the military alliance.

Speaking on the sidelines of a European Union leaders’ meeting in Brussels on Thursday, she said “we need to think about more durable solutions” than sending European peacekeeping troops to Ukraine.