Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will open their airspace for NATO military activities. This declaration will be signed at the North Atlantic Alliance summit on 11 June. TASS.
The document states that “Allies are given the opportunity to use the airspace of the Baltic states without restrictions for deterrence measures, enhanced monitoring and large-scale exercises.”
Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg knowledgeableIt has been reported that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will attend the alliance summit to be held in Vilnius on 11-12 July.
Prior to this, the German edition of Bild, citing various sources reportedthat at the upcoming NATO summit, Zelensky plans to openly appeal to all the heads of the alliance member countries with a request to admit his country to the organization, but the representatives of the USA and Germany are against this.
The North Atlantic Alliance adopted a political declaration at the Bucharest summit in April 2008 that “Ukraine and Georgia would eventually become NATO members”, but refused to provide both countries with a Membership Action Plan, the first step in legal procedure. organization of the country’s accession to NATO. In February 2019, the Rada approved changes to the Ukrainian constitution that strengthen the country’s aspirations for NATO membership. Kiev received the status of an alliance partner with advanced capabilities.
Former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz so-called causeAccordingly, Ukraine will not be able to join NATO.