today on inside politics, we re not going anywhere. you re struck with us. those promises to ukraine came directly from the president of the united states today. that as the west outlines that country s path toward nato membership. but exactly when ukraine can walk down that road remains a life or death decision. i m dana bash in washington. and i m wolf blitzer reporting live from lithuania, where this hour we expect to hear directly from the president of the united states joe biden. his speech will follow a rather contentious few days. ukraine has publicly questioned why its allies are waiting to formally admit the countries into nato. ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy struck very different tones. he says he s grateful for the great unity and for long lasting american security garn tees, but he also used stark terms to describe the costs of nato s decision to keep ukraine at arm s length. we are over at the university where the president is getting ready to speak
cruise missiles. the germans, new patriot systems. then as mentioned, the g7, so the seven biggest economies in the world, those countries saying in the long-term, they want to help ukraine with democratic reforms, with economic support, and more military aid. so that is their vision for ukraine essentially after this war. president zelenskyy seeing these long-term security garn tees, the security assurances as something that will basically help ukraine on its path to nato. nato has made clear that ukraine will join one day. it s really just a question of when the allies are all in unison and when those conditions have been met. but for the meantime, they are going to have to be con tent with the security guarantees. we should note the kremlin has responded to that news coming out of this saying the security guarantees could mean extremely negative consequences because
tones. he says he s grateful for the great unity and for long lasting american security garn tees, but he also used stark terms to describe the costs of nato s decision to keep ukraine at arm s length. we are over at the university where the president is getting ready to speak later this hour. arlette, you re there at the university. what do we anticipate the president will say in this rather important speech? reporter: president biden is expected to emphasize the unity and support that has come out of this spumt summit for ukraine, while also talking about the strengthened alliance, which has been one of his key priorities as he travelled here to the nato summit in lithuania. it got off to a tense start as volodymyr zelenskyy expressed frustration with the fact that nato was not outlining a timeline for when his country could join the alliance, but the president and volodymyr zelenskyy sat in a room together side by side and tried to put