Reznikov summed up the “weapons” results from the NATO summit: Ukraine will receive €1.5B in support. According to the Minister of Defense, the aid consists of seven packages. The largest is from Germany for €700M, which includes 25 Leopard 1A5 tanks, 40 Marder 1A3 BMPs, 2two Patriot air defense syste... #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATOsummitVilnius #OleksiyReznikov #WarinUkraine
The NATO summit demonstrated Moscow’s failure to achieve its goals that were set when it launched the full-scale war. According to the ISW, the summit demonstrated the extent to which the Russian invasion of Ukraine has undermined the Kremlin’s objectives that led it to start the war. One objective was to prev... #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine #WarinUkraine
NATO has published the communiqué from the summit in Vilnius on the evening of July 11. It contains several references to Ukraine’s membership and support, which mostly repeat or expand on the three-element package that Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced. In addi... #JensStoltenberg #NATOsummitVilnius #UkraineNATOCouncil
Zelenskyy met with world leaders in Vilnius: Australia is providing 30 Bushmasters, Germany and the Netherlands are strengthening Ukraine’s air defense, and Canada offers armored vehicles. According to the Ukrainian president, Australia is giving Ukraine 30 Bushmaster armored personnel carriers as part of a new aid package. The total number of Bushmasters provided to Ukraine now reaches... #JustinTrudeau #MarkRutte #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATOsummitVilnius #OlafScholz #RishiSunak #Zelenskyy
Training of Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 will start at the end of summer, and the planes will arrive in 2024. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, announced that during a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, Rutte agreed to start training Ukrainian pilots on Western-style ... #DmytroKuleba #F16 #F16training #MarkRutte #NATOsummitVilnius #Zelenskyy
NATO summit: Ukraine will receive long-range missiles, non-lethal weapons, more support, and training of F-16 pilots. France has decided to transfer long-range missiles to Ukraine. Specifically, these weapons are 50 SCALP missiles, an upgrade from the Storm Shadow already provided by Britain. South Korea has sent a p... #F16training #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATOsummitVilnius #OleksiyReznikov #WarinUkraine
During the summit meeting in Vilnius, Biden will try to adjust Zelenskyy’s ambitious plans for NATO. US President Joe Biden will hold meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Vilnius NATO summit on July 11-12. The meeting... #JoeBiden #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine #RecepTayyipErdoğan #Zelenskyy
A three-element package for Ukraine was approved at the NATO Summit in Vilnius. According to the Secretary General of the bloc, Jens Stoltenberg, the package includes canceling the Membership Action Plan. However, the members failed to agree on inviting Ukraine to the Alliance. A... #AssociationwithNATO #JensStoltenberg #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine #UkraineNATOCouncil
Ukraine’s NATO package will consist of three elements. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke about these in Vilnius. This package was presented for the first time in Oslo at an informal meeting of foreign ministers from NATO member countries. Acco... #AssociationwithNATO #JensStoltenberg #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine
Ukraine will receive consistent support in Vilnius but will not be invited to join the Alliance. According to Politico, Ukraine will most likely receive promises from NATO countries to continue most of the aid the allies are already providing. In addition, it will be offered “a more permane... #AssociationwithNATO #DmytroKuleba #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine
Ukraine wants to shorten its path to NATO, but Germany and the US have other plans. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, the route to the Alliance will be shortened, and some important decisions have already been made. At the same time, the minister added, the... #DmytroKuleba #JensStoltenberg #JoeBiden #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine #WarinUkraine
The Parliament of Bulgaria supports Ukraine’s membership in NATO. During President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Bulgaria, the People’s Assembly of Bulgaria voted for a declaration of support for Ukraine’s membership in the North Atlantic Alliance... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine #UkrainianPeaceFormula #WarinUkraine
Western diplomats: Ukraine needs a roadmap to join NATO as quickly as possible. Forty-six Western experts, military personnel, and diplomats including former US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Bigen and Special Representative of the US State Department for Ukraine, Kurt Volker,... #AssociationwithNATO #KurtVolker #NATOsummitVilnius #StephenBigen #UkraineNATO
The German opposition has called for the support of Ukraine’s NATO membership. Germany’s main political opposition force, the CDU/CSU alliance, is calling on the federal government to support the prospect of Ukraine’s membership in NATO ahead of the Vilnius summit, r... #AssociationwithNATO #GermanCDU/CSU #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine
The head of the British Ministry of Defense advocates Ukraine’s simplified accession to NATO. British Defense Minister Ben Wallace believes that Ukraine should be able to “skip” the NATO Membership Action Plan on its way to joining the Alliance, reported SKY News. “I think we... #AssociationwithNATO #BenWallace #JamesCleverley #NATOsummitVilnius #UkraineNATO