NATO will likely not comply with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands regarding Ukraine’s future, Fred Fleitz, a former National Security Council chief of staff under President Donald Trump, said on Newsmax, Sunday.

Putin’s list of concessions from Kyiv reportedly includes ceding the eastern Donbas region, formally abandoning ambitions to join NATO, prohibiting Western troops from being stationed in the country, and allowing Russia a role in determining Ukraine’s security guarantees.

“I don’t think NATO membership is on the table right now,” Fleitz said in an interview on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “Hungary is going to veto that. It has to be a unanimous vote.”

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