‘Ukrainian flags on Lithuanian streets truly prove that we are allies and we will protect our freedom and yours,’ Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tells crowds gathered outside the Nato summit in Vilnius.
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Though he failed to secure an invitation for his country to join the military alliance, he still expresses faith in a ‘strong’ Nato. The alliance’s leaders have signed off on a declaration that does not give a firm timetable or clear conditions for an eventual membership.
In a statement released on Twitter before the final communiqué was issued, Zelenskiy criticised the delay to accession, saying there seems to be ‘no readiness’ to welcome Ukraine to the fold. It was suggested he was engaging in last-minute hardball public diplomacy in the hope of prompting a rewrite of the final summit declaration.
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