[000:00:00;00] well, if you look at what the leaders of the north atlantic alliance said today, most of them say that we will see how the russian-ukrainian war will end, and if ukraine wins against the russians there , then ukraine will become a member of the north atlantic alliance at the same time. they all say that this is a window of opportunity. when we can gain an advantage it can be completed by the end of the year well at least that's what the president of the czech republic says to the joint press conference following the side meeting between the secretary general of nato and the president of ukraine zelensky, after that there will be chronicles of the hostilities, so stay with us, watch the tv channel of the stress on the territory of ukraine, he also underestimated

the determination and determination of the ukrainian government, he also appreciated the unity and strength of all members of the alliance, so nato will continue to be with you as long as it takes billions of dollars have already been transferred from the alliance to ukraine in order to to strengthen its defense capabilities and now we are finalizing a package that consists of three stages , we are talking about practical assistance or a multifaceted problem, a multifaceted program of establishment between ukraine and nato, the cancellation of the action plan for nato membership, an aid program to help ukraine transition from sovietization to nato standards

, the ukrainian armed forces will meet in a few minutes , the inaugural meeting of the ukraine-europe council will begin in a few minutes, and we will speak with the representatives of ukraine as an equal member of nato, as well as together we will make a decision yes ukraine is now extremely close to nato, our allies have confirmed once again that ukraine will become a member of the alliance and agreed to cancel the requirement of a military alliance this will change ukraine's path to nato from a two-step process to a one-step process we will also send ukraine an invitation to join the alliance as soon as our members all allies will confirm that

ukraine meets all the conditions we must ensure that as soon as this war ends there will be certain agreements and for the sake of ukrainian security so that repeated again today we welcome the fact that many participants themselves today will confirm their promises regarding long-term aid to ukraine this will help deter any future possible attacks from russia we we we sincerely thank all participants who increased the amount of their aid the current summit

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cation fortified extent and our expectations from the nato summit and here an important result is the recognition that ukraine

does not need an action plan regarding membership on the way to this way and i thank you also sincerely for these important steps and i know how many different conversations and agreements were made because of this, i thank you for such recognition we have come a long way in interoperability with nato and our soldiers have the most fresh experience of cooperation with various members of the alliance, our soldiers were able to use the weapons of nato countries, that global democracy is stronger than any terrorist threats against us by anyone, at the same time, even at the time of full scale

. these security guarantees can be confirmed by the big seven, and i think that if this happens, we will to work on this. it will be really important for us. as a concrete success, we can state that the results are good, but if there was an invitation, they would be perfect, and i would like to thank lithuania once again separately and not simply for this summit and for the energy that you are really full of, what we see on the streets, all these flags, this is not some kind of artificiality, this is such a human relationship, and i want to thank you all for this, for us, it is such a great support, great energy

and while we are not in nato yet but this is already a reality , this is our protection, this is such a great support of the societies of the world . security and as faith faith in ukraine as the winner of the entire war for freedom and people's rights, thank you once again to all. glory to ukraine, mr. president. how do you assess the wording on the acceptance of ukraine and when the conditions will allow it, and what will be discussed

at the council today, how will it differ from the commission from secret general what security guardise natura can of a now thank you for the question first of all how i evaluate i have already evaluated it publicly enough i think the most important thing is that there should be a result we see specific points that bring us closer to nato and as i said yes we want faster and very much sometimes it is difficult to explain some things to our partners, why. because we are at war , and our partners really want to help us, they help us, but we still understand that we live in different conditions, because we are in conditions where we have to survive, and our partners want us to

to help live and we still need to survive and this really pushes us to fast processes to processes that should lead to the reform of the security infrastructure in the world and surely at such a high price at the price of our lives we see how to fight against any aggression such important things we we are adequate people, we understand that our partners help us with weapons and this moment of survival , and we really need this. we understand that some people are really afraid to talk about our nato membership now because no one wants a world war, and this is also understandable and logical. i want you all to understand. and we and we are civilized, adequate people. ukraine is fighting, and at the same time, it clearly understands that ukraine cannot be a member of nato while

the war is going on, and this is absolutely understandable. but the signals that sounded today in our bilateral meetings and with the general secretary with partners we have already met with many people today that indeed ukraine will be a member of nato and this is such confidence . in my opinion, from all my meetings before this, for the first time , it sounded like this, we are confident that we will be members of nato when the conditions are really appropriate, i understand by this that then when it will be

ukraine is safe on our land. you know, this is one of the components of the package that we agreed to today, and i actually emphasize that it gives ukraine this closeness to nato that it never had. we are also strengthening our political ties, our political relations between nato and ukraine, the council of ukraine of europe differs from the previous commission, first of all, because it is actually an organization that can make decisions , it is not about the 31 countries participating in the summit, but actually about dialogue at the level of we can we can conduct dialogue at the level of the states

at the level heads of defense departments at the military level and with our e-e groups of experts. that is, we understand how much more powerful this department is if we compare what we are talking about at the partnership level with the partnership itself. that is, this the next step we are taking today in order to get closer to the moment when ukraine becomes a member of the alliance, this is a very important step and a very important contribution to this process, mr. president, you came today with the demand to receive a clear framework. you believe that ukraine

needs , in addition to weapons and promises, security guarantees , have your allies done enough and is the position actually for ukraine to join nato, it should actually be crowned with receiving and the fact that there is unfortunately no invitation, does all this undermine hopes the kremlin says that the west is making a serious mistake by providing security guarantees to ukraine, or are there certain fears that the allies are taking a step towards a direct war with russia ? regarding the invitation , i really understand that this is a technical signal. a serious motivational factor of ukrainian

society, for me as for the president. it was a very important moment, a very important moment . i really compare this fact with the moment when he was a candidate in the european union and in in bilateral e-e relations and in the dialogue between other states, i give this example, i spoke about this candidacy in the eu - it was also a signal to the candidates, there is no membership in the eu, but the candidates have confidence and there is a powerful mobilization for ukraine and a powerful signal from russia ukraine i am not a member of any other union, but i want to be a member specifically of the european union and will be a specifically independent state. and as for the invitation, it is also a

signal. can we get specifics in it, specifics - this is right now, if today the big seven agree to the first major declaration regarding security guarantees, then this will be a concrete fact because in the security guarantees it is written that these guarantees are effective on the way to nato and this is very important, it will already be very a specific signal well, all the other things, all the points the secretary general said regarding the alliance . thank you very much. the war and that's why nato has no other option. besides how to fight, the most important threat is when putin will win if he

because he crossed the threshold of his neighbor's border, he violated international law, he is now creating arbitrariness, and therefore it is our duty to defend ukraine and be in solidarity with it , because we understand that if putin gains an advantage on the territory of ukraine, he will not stop, he will shake our peace, long-term prospects we all understand that ukraine, as a democratic state, has every right to choose its own path, the path to its future, this is indeed a fundamental right of every nation, and i do not want the kremlin to decide for someone who can and who cannot become a member of the alliance, russia has always opposed the expansion of nato, and in particular, now the country needs to decide when and decide whether nato will be in ukraine and

not in moscow, now we are bringing ukraine closer to nato with our decisions, we are thereby sending clear signals to moscow, ukraine remains in our highest priority. we expect that russia will protest. russia also protested against the accession of finland, but ukraine , i repeat, will decide on its own, not russia . i would like to add a small remark, one word. to add to the words of the secretary general that the importance of those as a tool of integration this also gives us understanding and spirit and hope

that we will be in nato questions to the president of ukraine and to the secretary general please tell me what you expect from today's meeting of the g7 countries and what guarantees can be provided to ukraine, how will they differ from the nato commission ukraine, which was before that and again when there were certain problems , in particular with hungary and other countries that we technical decisions can be made regarding today's meeting as well as security guarantees, so i want to say that of course it is not about any auxiliary aspects. we currently do not have real security guarantees that we

will receive when we become one, but we understand legally that there are certain financial guarantees, there are financial guarantees, there are sanctions guarantees defense guarantees providing defense support and again it would be good if there was a legal document that would emphasize that we really have a clear defense comprehensive approach the so-called security umbrella and we hope what are we talking about bilateral? there is a document for whom every guarantee covering all these aspects will be prescribed, about which we are talking about what we currently lack, for example, the air defense of combat fighters, all these aspects will really be considered at the bilateral level, uh, this security umbrella, this document will be

allow other countries to also join with their garandians also this will be an opportunity for other partners to join and we have already started a dialogue with other allies and partners we have already become friends with them but they are currently not part of the g-7, they will also join and contribute . therefore, the ukraine nato commission understands that individual participants cannot block the decisions of the ukrainian nato council. we also say that individual partners can have consultations. for example, if president zelensky wants to hold an individual meeting by a representative of one or another participating country, he can do it because we are meeting at the same level, this creates new conditions on which it will be possible to discuss

critical points and, in fact, everyone can to call and initiate such a meeting. that is, you understand that it is a clear, strong political tool that will influence the decision-making process. this is one of the elements, in particular, within the framework of the decision we are making today in order to bring ukraine closer to nato. guarantees, we know that indeed, over the past 30 years , the lack of basketball guarantees has led to the annexation of crimea and other conflicts that were provoked by aggression. please tell me how it is can actually affect the influence on the attitude of the russians, putin's attitude, we know what any signals and moments are, putin

has ignored until today, thanks for the question , security guarantees. i do not understand any responsibility in it . was with this document and was left alone, and we do not see what kind of violation of this document, etc. , as for the new document, it should be valid until ukraine is not in nato, anyway, we all understand that the best guarantees for ukraine and for ukrainians it is to be in nato it is clear because there are relevant examples we do not see i can emphasize this once again that we do not see and thank god we do not see the countries that are members of nato that are at war today, that are suffering, that are dying , that are defending their state, so it is clear for us

the best guarantees are nato on the way to nato. we would like to have the guarantors that we have now and have them permanently and have them only make us more powerful in relation to the guarantor countries. we want to have an appropriate document so that it is not only on our personal relationship was based on the help that it was issued and was very specific today's a-a framework declaration morning security guarantees open the possibility of these two-sided powerful documents we are concluding the press conference congratulations to president zelensky today you will meet with president biden please tell me what results you expect

i hope you will be able to convince him that ukraine is ready for nato membership. when you meet with president biden , will you discuss cluster munitions ? or maybe some other type of weapons that you have not yet received and the question to the general secretary how quickly you receive the actual provision of f16 fighter jets from partners about what president zelensky has been asking for a long time about the f16, this question was and for me no no answers the question about nato and

the like, okay, thank you first of all, and i sincerely thank president biden and the congress of the american people for their leadership, with the help of which ukraine receives, we really deeply appreciate their efforts, we do not plan to look for any points for arguments, in particular regarding i think that any arguments they should be mutual , we are talking about security on the eastern flank of nato, and i am truly convinced that ukraine needs ukraine as much as ukraine needs nato. i am sure that after ukraine will as a member of nato, it will do everything possible to make this happen as soon as possible, we will cooperate in order to have a common understanding and vision together with

the usa regarding cluster munitions, i want to say that there are certain moments when we face certain misunderstandings about the details with our partners american partners i want to clarify all this the president in the united states i know that this was a challenge for the united states for the congress for the americans who do not share the support actually when it comes to cluster about cluster munitions so i want to show to look at this is a question from a different perspective russia repeatedly uses cluster bombs it fights on our territory when it fights on our territory when it kills our innocent citizens when it uses such supplies on

a regular basis and therefore actually help which we receive from the usa , in particular, and with regard to cluster munitions, we are talking about the use of this type of weapon only against military groups and military gatherings of our enemy in the occupied territory. we are not going to use it elsewhere . there must be some justice and honor. kill us how can we defend ourselves that is we are talking about honesty we are talking about equal conditions we are talking about our defense we are defending ourselves defending ourselves not using weapons on the territory of our adversary we want to win back our territory in relation to other types of weapons yes we need long-range artillery systems and yes missiles and we will raise this issue yesterday a group of our allies have created a coalition that will provide training to ukrainian pilots on

f16 fighter jets this initiative uh, which was started by the netherlands and denmark and i really congratulate our other allies who joined this program, some preparations are already underway and direct training will begin soon we are actually talking about summer, that is, training will begin in medicine, all this mechanism has already been launched. last time when i actually looked at the list of our allies who will join them more than 10 they are already ready to start the student will be able to provide our further decision regarding the provision of f16 fighters. that is, we we are starting with the training of ukrainian pilots, i also want to add that the security documents of the meeting

are all important, but the most important task now is to provide a sufficient number of weapons for the armed forces of ukraine and therefore now it is very important that there will be, you understand, after these meetings, we heard new statements from our allies regarding the supply of long-range ballistic missiles and long-range cruise missiles, as well as other armored vehicles and armored personnel carriers. we hope that our allies will provide other packages of ammunition and weapons. we expect on these announcements and that is why it is our first priority. we want ukraine to have an advantage on the battlefield , everything is the most important thing for us right now. therefore, we are now emphasizing with ukraine as much as this is needed and we will provide for the most urgent needs of ukraine. thank you