VILNIUS: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced disappointment that Ukraine was not invited to join NATO on Tuesday (Jul 11), telling supporters in the Lithuanian capital: 'Is this too big of a wish?' 'NATO will make Ukraine safer, Ukraine will make NATO stronger,' he told the thousa
VILNIUS: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced disappointment that Ukraine was not invited to join NATO on Tuesday , telling supporters in the Lithuanian capital:"Is this too big of a wish?"
Shortly before the speech, NATO leaders agreed the alliance would extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the military alliance when"members agree and conditions are met." "I would wish for this belief to become a certainty - certainty in decisions that all of us deserve and which our every soldier expects, our every citizen, our every mother, our every child. And is this too big of a wish?" he asked.
It was brought to Vilnius by a group of 33 Ukrainian and Lithuanian runners in support of Ukraine as the potential 33rd NATO member. Activists asked the people of Vilnius to display 33,000 flags in their house windows to show support. Lithuania, along with its Baltic neighbours Latvia and Estonia, were the last states to become part of the Soviet Union, when they were annexed in 1940, and the first to declare independence in 1990 when the bloc collapsed.
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