Czech President-elect Petr Pavel has told the BBC that Ukraine should be allowed to join Nato "as soon as the war is over".

Mr Pavel, a retired Nato general, said Ukraine would be "morally and practically ready" to join the Western alliance once the conflict had ended.

In his first broadcast interview with the international media since his election, Gen Pavel gave a robust defence of Western military support to Kyiv, saying there should be "almost no limits" to what countries should send.

Speaking from the renaissance Hrzansky Palace, a few hundred metres from Prague Castle, he said for him sending Western fighter planes such as F-16s was "not taboo", but he was unsure they could be delivered in a timeframe that could prove useful to Kyiv.

Petr Pavel picked a peck of pickled peppers...betcha can't say that fast.

Absolutely but first they must win.

Sure. Because Ukrain is SO close to the North Atlantic...

1 minute ago, Hanaguma said:

Sure. Because Ukrain is SO close to the North Atlantic...

NATO was an alliance against the Soviet Union Keep in mind that when NATO was created, some of central europe, and all of Eastern Europe was under Soviet control. Russia is the successor state to the Soviet Union. So NATO continues as an alliance against Russian attempts to yoke those liberated states once again.

Absolutely old Putin’s plan is backfiring ehh?good the world doesent need another war criminal dictator