Nicola Sturgeon has spelled out her firm belief that Scotland must join NATO if the country votes for independence in the future.
The First Minister used a keynote speech in Washington DC on Monday to insist the war in Ukraine had strengthened her conviction that membership of the defence alliance was "absolutely right and essential".
Appearing at the Brookings Institution - a well-known American think-tank - she explained how the SNP had ditched its previous opposition to NATO membership in 2012.
