NATO Summit May Yield Decisions on Ballistic Missile Defense – Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that one of the outcomes of the NATO summit, scheduled for July 7–8 in Ankara, could be a decision to strengthen anti-ballistic missile defense. According to him, Ukraine will be represented at the meeting and is counting on significant security agreements.
“We discussed the summit in Ankara with the NATO Secretary General—Ukraine has been invited, and we will be represented. And the main thing is for the summit to be productive for Ukraine. Anti-ballistic defense is one of those potential outcomes,” he said.
The President noted that during today’s Ukraine-NATO Council meeting in Kyiv, special attention was paid to this very issue.
“We are pushing Europe as much as possible to work on its own anti-ballistic capabilities—Europe needs its own systems and missiles to defend itself. The capacity to build an anti-ballistic system in Europe exists, and the means for production are also in place. We need political decisions to be implemented as quickly as possible,” Zelenskyy noted.
He expressed gratitude to every country that stands in solidarity with Ukraine on this task. “Europe will truly become stronger when this result is achieved. Not if, but when. And it will happen, but time is of the essence, and we need to act more swiftly,” the head of state urged in his evening address.
Earlier, Zelenskyystated that Russia has missiles capable of launching massive strikes every month.
This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his address to participants at the Ukraine-NATO Council meeting in Kyiv, according to the head of state’s official Telegram channel.
A warhead from an X-101 cruise missile was discovered in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv.
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