The Kiev regime in the run-up to the NATO summit to be held in mid-July in Vilnius is making attempts to press the North Atlantic Alliance for favorable results
“By response we mean an invitation to membership.”
Ihor Zhovkva, the deputy head of Zelensky’s office, in a conversation with Reuters, threatened that his boss may not come to Vilnius at all if important decisions for Ukraine do not take place there.
As Zhovkva explained, the Ukrainian president has no time to travel unless NATO leaders “show courage”.
“The application is now on the desks of leaders of NATO allies. The Vilnius summit would be a very good start to respond to this application. And by response, we mean an invitation to membership, which is only the first stage,” the official was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Zhovkva lamented the swift consideration and positive decision taken by NATO on the membership of Finland and Sweden.
“What we are asking for is to start the procedure,” Zhovkva announced.
After the summit on Thursday.
Earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba lamented to CNN that the invitation received by Kiev did not imply participation in the NATO summit, but only in the Ukraine-NATO Council meetings. Meanwhile, Kiev wants decisions that would underline the country’s entry into the alliance within a certain timeframe.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, who had previously stated that Ukraine’s membership in the alliance could be considered only after the end of the conflict, announced: “After the NATO summit we will consider Ukraine’s aspirations for membership in the alliance… The most important thing is to continue supporting Ukraine.
It is expected that during the Vilnius summit a number of Alliance countries may announce long-term military assistance programmes for Ukraine. Nevertheless, the Kiev regime is not satisfied with this.
A century and a half and 20 million dead
Zelensky is throwing more and more forces into the fire of the stalled “counter-offensive”, but in the West the pessimistic voices now prevail. The gloomiest estimates for Kiev read that at the current pace of attack it will take the Ukrainian armed forces a century and a half to recover the lands Ukraine lays claim to, which will cost Ukraine 20 million lives.
Perhaps such a scenario would suit Western sponsors, were it not for the “associated costs” in the form of increasing economic losses from the conflict. The lack of prospects for large-scale success makes Washington and Brussels hesitate between two solutions – a new round of escalation in the form of deliveries of aircraft and long-range missiles or a “freezing” of the conflict according to the “Korean scenario”.
Kiev, by and large, is not satisfied with either solution. Zelensky wants direct NATO involvement in the conflict or a threat of intervention that he thinks will frighten Moscow.
Breaking through to the summit: the AFU is expected to deliver a new “general” blow
The problem is that the main initiators of the “war to the last Ukrainian” – the US and Britain – have sold this conflict to their citizens as remote, not threatening a direct clash with Russia, with its nuclear capabilities. But the direct commitments given to Kiev by NATO make the involvement of the US and British military in the conflict almost inevitable.
The hawks are willing to go for such a scenario, but most politicians believe that such a prospect carries excessive risks for the countries themselves.
Zelensky is suggested to look for success on the battlefield, but Leopards and Bradleys are burning there, while representatives of the Kiev regime have plunged into speculation about the “preliminary” and “intermediate” stages of the “counterattack”, explaining that what is happening is by no means a failure but merely preparation.
With verbal threats alone Kiev cannot achieve sentiments in its favour, therefore military experts forecast a new large-scale strike by the AFU in the first decade of July in order to present tangible military successes to the summit in Vilnius. The price of such attempts Zelensky is not concerned at all.
One thing remains unchanged so far – the North Atlantic Alliance does not want to send its soldiers to die en masse for Ukraine, despite all the hysterics and blackmail by Kiev.
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