Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Ukrainian Presidential office, said he was not surprised that Kiev did not receive an invitation to join the alliance at the NATO summit in Vilnius. It has been reported TASS.
“No one except Ukraine is ready to respond to these challenges and take responsibility. “We knew that NATO would only take the first steps: don’t give up on a long-term program and membership action plan,” he said.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that after the country’s candidacy to join the European Union, joining NATO is also waiting for him.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov declarationKiev is well aware that on the backdrop of hostilities, the country will not yet be granted NATO membership. At the same time, according to him, the argument for inviting Ukraine to the North Atlantic Alliance is the fact that the republic is the only state in the world that has combat experience in “taking control of the Russians” and uses NATO weapons for this.
Previously in NATO declaration About Ukrainian plans.