A Ukrainian delegation will attend the forthcoming NATO summit, reports suggest. This appeared confirmed in a statement from President Volodymyr Zelensky during an online press conference on Monday, June 2nd.
If true, this debunks speculation that the war-torn country would be excluded from talks in the Netherlands, scheduled for June 24th and 25th. Zelensky said:
We were invited to the NATO summit. I think this is important.
The claim is based on yesterday’s meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during the Vilnius summit of Nordic countries and the Bucharest Nine. While Zelensky was feted at the equivalent NATO summit in 2024, there is growing concern that the goal of Ukrainian NATO membership is both unobtainable and a provocation to Vladimir Putin’s Russia. U.S. President Donald Trump has also claimed that Ukraine provoked war with Russia by pursuing NATO membership,
