"Ultimately culturally it is accepted that Ukraine will join NATO. When that happens is either condition-based... Also, before this invasion, Britain with Sweden, Canada, the United States were investing in Ukraine and building their capabilities," Wallace told a public forum on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius.
The minister said the NATO leaders' meeting on Tuesday had confirmed the cultural acceptance that Ukraine would join NATO one day, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his disappointment about not getting a formal invitation to join the bloc.
"There is now a complete acceptance that Ukraine will join NATO. It is not an 'if' anymore but it is a 'when'," Wallace said.
In 2014-2015, Ukraine negotiated a series of measures with Russia, France and Germany known as the Minsk Agreements aimed at a political resolution of its conflict with its breakaway eastern region of Donbas.
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