The 31 leaders of the Atlantic Alliance (NATO) have only a few hours left to reach an agreement. Wednesday, July 12, at the end of the summit in which they have been participating since the day before in Lithuania, Emmanuel Macron and his counterparts must present a plan of long-term commitments for the security of Ukraine. But the Ukrainian president seems unhappy that the timetable allowing Ukraine to join NATO has not been specified. A situation that Volodymyr Zelensky judged “absurd” before criticizing “indecision” of the organization which encourages, according to him, “terror” Russian. Follow our live.
Member States want rassure Ukraine about its future membership. Joe Biden will notably meet his Ukrainian counterpart on Wednesday. On Tuesday, a first press release from the alliance promised that “the future of Ukraine” was “in NATO, and that an invitation to join would be extended to Ukraine “when the Allies have decided and the conditions are met”. If Ukraine quickly joins, as its leader wanted when he arrived in Vilnius, member states fear being drawn into a global conflict with Russia. A few hours later, in front of a crowd gathered in front of him, the Ukrainian president thundered: “uncertainty is a weakness”.
Arms delivery insurance. The G7 countries are preparing a joint statement of support for Ukraine. On Tuesday, Germany promised the country at war more than 700 million euros in additional aid and France for its part, the delivery of long-range missiles. The American president has already proposed to Ukraine a model similar to that concluded with Israel: Washington provides 3.8 billion dollars in military aid per year, for ten years.
kyiv hit by new drone strikes. It is the second night in a row that the Ukrainian capital has been affected. The head of the Kyiv military administration said that this attack was completely repelled. Serhïi Popko added not to hold “no information on casualties or destruction so far” in a message posted on Telegram.