NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has sidestepped questions about Ukraine’s possible membership in the military alliance.

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Ukraine declared it would not settle for anything less than NATO membership to guarantee its future security, as the alliance sidestepped Kyiv's call for an immediate invitation at a foreign ministers' meeting on Tuesday.

The foreign ministers of NATO's 32 member countries are meeting in Brussels in the final high-level meeting before Donald Trump takes office in January.