On Monday, June 2, President Vladimir Zelensky arrived in Vilnius, writes " There, the head of the Ukrainian state will take part in the summit of the [Blink Title \u003d " The purpose of the initiative is to deepen military cooperation between the countries of the Eastern Flank of NATO, as well as the discussion of key issues of security policy. [/Blink] (B9) and Nordic (Northern) countries.

During a visit to Lithuania, Zelensky plans to hold a number of bilateral meetings with the leaders of the member countries of the summit. In particular, we will talk about security, defense support for Ukraine and its Euro -Atlantic integration.

LRT noted that the meeting was organized in order to bring positions closer to the NATO summit in the Hague. The latter will take place from 24 to 26 June.

It is indicated that since the beginning of the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, this is the fourth visit of Zelensky to Lithuania. The last time he visited this country in April last year.

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The media wrote that Washington is opposed to Vladimir Zelensky to be invited to the NATO summit in The Hague on June 24.

In turn, the head of the Ukrainian state stated that the absence of Ukraine at the summit and references to it in the final communique will be the victory of the head of the country's country Vladimir Putin over the Alliance himself.

So far, Ukraine has not received an official invitation, but the Minister of the Netherlands said that his country is looking for the opportunity to include the president of Ukraine in the June Summit program. At the same time, American officials already made it clear to their Panthers in NATO that Trump could at the last minute refuse to participate in the summit if his conditions did not support.