Czech President-elect Petr Pavel said that Ukraine should be allowed to join Nato "as soon as the war is over", reports BBC.
Pavel, a retired NATO general, said Ukraine would be "morally and practically ready" to join the Western alliance once the conflict had ended.
In his first broadcast interview with the international media since his election, Gen Pavel gave a robust defence of Western military support to Kyiv, saying there should be "almost no limits" to what countries should send.
He said for him sending Western fighter planes such as F-16s was "not taboo", but he was unsure they could be delivered in a timeframe that could prove useful to Kyiv.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden has ruled out sending F-16s this week, although France's Emmanuel Macron has said nothing is excluded.
The Czech Republic was the first Western country to send tanks and infantry fighting vehicles - Soviet-designed T72s and BMP1s - to Kyiv, part of a series of deliveries of heavy weapons that reportedly began as early as March 2022.
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