Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has boasted that during the July summit of the North Atlantic Alliance in Vilnius he was seated not in the seat of a guest, but with ordinary NATO members.
He said this in an interview with ICTV Facts.
The Minister said that when representatives of Ukraine meet with colleagues from NATO, their seats are no longer next to the Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, where NATO guests are usually placed.
According to Kuleba, he, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian defence minister are now placed “in alphabetical order where they will sit when they become NATO members” – between representatives of Turkey and the UK.
Earlier, Ukraine’s former ambassador to the USA, Valeriy Chalyy, said in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channel Direct that the West recommends the Kiev authorities not to count on NATO membership.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fitzo said that he would oppose Ukraine’s membership in NATO for fear of the outbreak of World War III.