00:00President Zelensky and I also discussed the preparations for the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius in July.
00:09I have invited him to attend the meeting and I'm glad that he has accepted the invitation and will attend
00:16the NATO Summit in Vilnius.
00:19All NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member. President Zelenskyy has a very clear expectation. We discussed
00:31this, both the issue of membership but also security guarantees.
00:38And of course, Ukraine needs security because no one can tell when and how this war ends. But what we
00:46do know is that when the war ends, we need to ensure that history doesn't repeat itself.
00:51So we need a discussion about a security framework. We need, there will be a discussion about, there is an
00:58ongoing discussion about membership.
01:00But my message was, first, Ukraine's rightful place is in NATO as allies have agreed.
01:11But also that the main focus now is to ensure that Ukraine prevails. Because if Ukraine doesn't prevail as a
01:19sovereign independent nation in Europe, there is no meaning in discussing membership.
01:24And we need to preserve the unity in supporting Ukraine. And that's the main focus also of the meeting today.
01:31Or also after the war ends, we need to support Ukraine. Because we need to ensure that Ukraine has the
01:38military strength, the capabilities, the deterrence to prevent new attacks.
01:45Because you have to remember that the war didn't start in February last year. The war started in 2014 when
01:52Russia illegally annexed Crimea and when Russia for the first time moved into East and Donbass.
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