Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Wednesday to discuss NATO as Ukraine seeks to enter the alliance. Zelenskiy on Tuesday stepped up calls for Ukraine to receive a "political invitation" to join NATO at a July 11-12 summit of alliance members in Lithuania.
is over, and his comments were welcomed and then echoed by the nato secretary general, yen stoltenberg. both men said that some kind of framework need to be codified, to be agreed at a nato summit in the summer, to ensure ukraine s long term security. that will have ramifications for other countries who aren t nato members, presumably. the second was something that ursula von der leyen said, the eu president. she said ukraine is getting through ammunition faster than ukraine s allies can replenish it. she said, during the pandemic, when we wanted to mass produce those vaccines, we had a model within the eu, which enabled companies to take on contracts to start that production and do it at scale. why don t we do something similar for the production of ammunition? amongst all of these grand gestures, these sweeping statements, there are conversations about how practically achieved some of those aims when it