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Zelenskiy voices letdown Ukraine is non invited to union NATO

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'NATO leave earn Ukraine safer, Ukrayina volition cook NATO stronger,' he tells thousands in Vilnius, many waving Ukrainian flags

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Lithuanian President of the United States Gitanas Nauseda manpower Zelenskiy a bullet-holed Ukrainian flag

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'Ukrayina is purchasing us fourth dimension with their blood, so we dismiss ready and commit a hard replication to Russia,' Nauseda tells crowd

By Sabine Siebold, Lavatory Irish and St. Andrew Gray

VILNIUS, pagar beton minimalis July 11 (Reuters) - NATO leadership aforementioned on Tues that Ukrayina should be able-bodied to get together the military alliance at some head in the hereafter only they stopped-up shortly of offer Kyiv an immediate invitation, angering Ukrainian Chair Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

The leaders were group meeting at a pinnacle in the Lithuanian chapiter Vilnius as Ukrainian soldiery struggled to make meaning gains in a counteroffensive against the Russian encroachment forces occupying parts of the area.

The leadership aforesaid in a declaration: "Ukraine's future is in NATO".

But they offered no timeline for the sue.

"We will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the alliance when allies agree and conditions are met," the announcement said, without specifying the conditions Ukrayina inevitably to match.

NATO did free fall a necessary for Ukrayina to execute what is named a Rank Execute Program (MAP), effectively removing a vault on Kyiv's manner into the confederation.

Even out earlier the free of the declaration, Zelenskiy had assailed NATO leaders.

"It's unprecedented and absurd when a timeframe is not set, neither for the invitation nor for Ukraine's membership," Zelenskiy said in front arriving in Vilnius as a particular node.

Public speaking at a tease in Vilnius on Tuesday, Zelenskiy sonant dashing hopes that Ukrayina was not invited to joint North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

"NATO will make Ukraine safer, Ukraine will make NATO stronger," he told the thousands of people, many flying Country flags.

"I travelled here today with belief in a decision, with belief in partners, with belief in a strong NATO..."

"I would wish for this belief to become a certainty - certainty in decisions that all of us deserve and which our every soldier expects, our every citizen, our every mother, our every child. And is this too big of a wish?" he asked.

Substantial AND Lead THREAT

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization stance highlighted the divisions among its 31 members terminated bighearted a particular date or a square invitation for Ukraine to sum. Kyiv has been push for a Swift entry, leap in concert with certificate guarantees, since fifty-fifty in front Soviet Russia unleashed its invasion in February 2022.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization members in eastern Common Market get backed up Kyiv's call, contention that bringing Ukraine below NATO's protection umbrella is the topper way to discourage Russia from attacking again.

Countries such as the United States and Federal Republic of Germany get been more cautious, wary of whatever relocation that they dread could soak up NATO into a direct infringe with Russian Federation.

The NATO resolution said: "We reaffirm our unwavering solidarity with the government and people of Ukraine in the heroic defence of their nation, their land, and our shared values."

In unassailable terminology towards Moscow, it said: "The Russian Federation is the most significant and direct threat to Allies´ security and to peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area."

Asked about Zelenskiy's criticism, NATO Repository Worldwide Jens Stoltenberg told a compact conference: "There has never been a stronger message from NATO at any time, both when it comes to the political message of the path forward for membership and the concrete support from NATO allies."

He said premature accessions to NATO had non been accompanied by a timeline.

"They are conditions-based, have always been," he aforesaid.

LONG-Rank MISSILES

Zelenskiy did mark wins elsewhere. French people Chairman Emmanuel Macron said French capital would starting line supply long-cooking stove sail missiles, next a standardised proclamation by U.K.. These testament allow Ukrainian forces to dispatch Russian military personnel and supplies mysterious in arrears the nominal head lines.

Germany announced young help worth 700 1000000 euros, including two Nationalist atmosphere defensive structure missile launchers, and More tanks and fighting vehicles.

The peak was also buoyed by the aspect of Sweden connexion NATO as its newest appendage subsequently Country Chairperson Tayyip Erdogan on Monday short dropped his objections to the move, patch pushful to revive negotiation for Joker to junction the European Wedlock.

Moscow, which has cited NATO's eastern enlargement as a factor out in its determination to invade Ukraine, has criticised the two-daytime summit ending on Wednesday and warned European Community would be the foremost to human face "catastrophic consequences" should the warfare step up.

"Potentially, this issue (of Ukraine joining NATO) is very dangerous for European security... and therefore those who will make the decision must be aware of this," Kremlin voice Dmitry Peskov aforesaid.

European leadership did non look to interpret that moving NATO subject field substructure towards Russia's borders was a mistake, he said.

At the tease in Vilnius, Baltic State President Gitanas Nauseda handed Zelenskiy a bullet-holed Ukrainian ease up which had been flown on a Country armored combat vehicle during battles in Bakhmut.

"Ukraine is buying us time with their blood, so we can prepare and give a strong retort to Russia," Nauseda told the herd.

(Coverage by Lav Irish, Saint Andrew Gray, Sabine Siebold, Steve Holland, Justyna Pawlak, Andrius Sytas, Krisztina Than, Niklas Pollard, Jason Hovet, Janis Laizans, Anna Pruchnicka, Olena Harmash; Piece of writing by Gabriela Baczynska, Matthias Thomas Lanier Williams and Black Angus MacSwan; Redaction by Alex Sir Ralph David Richardson and Leslie Howard Stainer Goller)