According to the Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania, Victoria Cmilyte-Nielsen, members of the parliaments of NATO countries are convinced that the Alliance states should increase funding for the defense system and accept Ukraine into NATO.. DELFI reports..

Lithuania hosted a meeting of representatives of the parliaments of NATO countries, Sweden and Ukraine, where they discussed the challenges faced by the Alliance, as well as increasing funding and strengthening defense and a long-term assistance plan for Ukraine.

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Cmilyte-Nielsen added that the leaders of the parliaments of the different countries of the Alliance “spoke with one voice”, regardless of whether the country is on the eastern, southern or northern flank, or whether these are states that intend to become NATO members.

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Recently, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that some NATO countries are so afraid of the Russian Federation that they do not want to see Ukraine in the Alliance.

According to media reports, NATO countries are considering the possibility of providing Ukraine with security guarantees similar to the current guarantees for Israel before our state joins the Alliance..

We are talking about the priority in the transfer of weapons and technologies, but not the direct involvement of foreign troops to protect the territories.

Despite the fact that the scenario of inviting Ukraine to NATO already in Vilnius looks unrealistic, Kyiv actually has no right to take a different position. Why Ukraine should still insist on an invitation to the Alliance at the July summit, Alena Getmanchuk explains in the article “Ukraine-NATO: Bucharest and Bucharest’s mistakes should be corrected in Vilnius”.