It is obvious at this point that Ukraine's "path to NATO" appears to have been dropped as a prominent talking point among Ukrainian officials and in Brussels for the time being. This is how Boris Johnson has sabotaged the Ukraine-Russia peace deal in April.
There is accumulating evidence that the conflict in Ukraine could have been finished by now, but key Western supporters of Kiev worked to sabotage the possibility of a peaceful conclusion through discussions. That is what regional Ukrainian media determined as early as May, just after UK's Boris Johnson traveled to Kiev on a "surprise" trip to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time the month before.
A shocking report from Ukrainska Pravda at the time stated the following, but Western mainstream media mostly disregarded it:
According Ukrainska Pravda sources close to Zelenskyy, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, who appeared in the capital almost without warning, brought two ...