7:30 am: kyiv calls for a “clear signal” to NATO leaders
The meeting of the 31 leaders of the countries of the Alliance is held Tuesday and Wednesday in Vilnius. Some 35 km from the border with Belarus, an ally of Moscow, and not far from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, under the protection in particular of Rafale planes deployed by France and Patriot missile batteries by Germany.
The Ukrainian president, expected at this summit, called for “a clear signal” from Westerners on his country’s prospects for membership. “Ukraine deserves to be part of the Alliance. Not now because now is war, but we need a clear signal and this signal is needed now,” Volodymyr Zelensky insisted in a message on Telegram.