Lloyd Austin noted that further steps will be taken to provide Kiev with a range of capabilities to counter Russian aggression.
Ukraine will become part of the North Atlantic Alliance after the end of the war. Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said this was expressed in an interview with CNN during the NATO summit in Vilnius.
He noted that Ukraine’s entry into the Alliance would take place. According to Austin, the decisions taken at the event gave confidence to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“I have no doubt that this will happen,” Austin said.
Asked how close Ukraine is to NATO standards, Austin replied, “There is still work to be done.” The head of the Pentagon noted that in the future steps will be taken to provide Ukraine with a number of opportunities.
“We are doing this work now that they are at war, and a lot has already been done and more will have to be done,” the American official said.
Results of the NATO summit in Vilnius
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that future accession to the Alliance must really be a political decision. He explained that he did not know whether everyone was sincere with him to the end and whether everything was right, but in the war with the Russian Federation it was necessary to live with faith in the allies.
Zelensky also met with US President Joe Biden in the Lithuanian capital. He said they discussed long-term aid to Ukraine, arms supplies, politics and NATO.
Recall that at the summit in Vilnius, the G7 countries decided when to hand over frozen assets to the Russian Federation. In the statement, it was stated that the G7 countries found Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which poses a threat to international peace and security, illegal and unjustified, considered it a grave violation of international law, and supported Ukraine as necessary in its defense against Russia’s aggression.
Source: Focus
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