Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reaffirmed Monday that joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is still the goal of his country. “There is no signal from us that NATO membership is not our goal,” he told reporters after he met German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Kyiv. However, he acknowledged that the path for Russia’s neighbor will be long because NATO’s “open door” policy has no specific deadlines. Zelenskyy made the statement after Ukrainian Ambassador Vadym Prystaiko told BBC they could drop their NATO bid to avoid war with Russia. when asked if Kyiv could change its position on NATO membership, Prystaiko was quoted as saying, “We might—especially being threatened like that, blackmailed by that, and pushed to it.” He backtracked his comments later and said dropping the bid for NATO membership is not an option. “We are not a member of NATO right now and to avoid war we are …