Ukraine's former top military commander and now ambassador to the UK has been quoted as saying ⁠there is no prospect of the country joining Nato. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, ⁠quoted by Ukrainian news website Evropeiska Pravda, told a meeting of Ukrainian ambassadors on Monday that Ukraine in no way met ⁠the military standards needed to join the alliance. For about 12 years I ⁠personally worked on making sure we met Nato standards, and every ​year I heard tales about ‌how we would join ‌Nato any day now," the site quoted him as telling the ‌meeting. Zaluzhnyi said it was "impossible with the level of development that the armed forces of Ukraine have … to join an organisation guided by World War 2 doctrines". Zaluzhnyi was dismissed as Ukraine's top commander in 2024 over differences ⁠with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on conducting the war with Russia.