kyiv claims that NATO can correct in Vilnius its “fatal mistakes” of recent years
Adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office Mikhailo Podoliak declared today that the NATO summit in Vilnius is an opportunity to “correct the fatal mistakes of the Bucharest summit in 2008”, when the Alliance avoided offering an accession sheet to Georgia since Ukraine in the face of Russian warnings.
“Today and tomorrow in Vilnius, NATO will be able to recover its personality and independently determine its development strategy without taking into account the threats and vetoes of the Russian Federation,” Podoliak, who is one of the most senior advisors, wrote on his Twitter account. influential people in the office of Volodimir Zelensky.
Podoliak regretted that “the open doors” that NATO promised at the Bucharest summit “turned out not to be so open”, and also referred to the two-day summit that starts today in the Lithuanian capital as an opportunity to adapt the Alliance to the realities revealed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.