US won't offer NATO ally status to Ukraine due to risk of clash with Russia, says analyst He said the United States "is not interested in getting deeper involved in the settlement process or participating in the conflict directly in case of its escalation" MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. The United States’ Joe Biden-led administration will not offer the status of NATO’s ally to Ukraine, because it would entail risks of an open clash with Russia, the director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Fyodor Voitolovsky, said at a meeting of experts with the deputy chief of the presidential staff Dmitry Kozak on Thursday.