India, Feb. 24 -- Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy continued to bid for Kyiv's seat in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), saying that if his country does not join the group then it will have to "create a NATO within" itself.

Zelenskyy described NATO as the "most cost-effective option for preventing another war", with his post being made on the third-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

His remarks come just a day after the president admitted his willingness to resign from his post if it meant that Ukraine would be admitted to the NATO military alliance. "If there is peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to leave my post, I am ready.. I can exchange it for NATO," Zelenskyy said during a press conference...