Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy plans to attend in particular person a NATO summit going down in Vilnius in July, Ukraine’s ambassador to Lithuania instructed native newswire BNS.

Zelenskiy has made solely two international journeys since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly a 12 months in the past – one to Washington in December and one other to London, Paris and Brussels in February.

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The Vilnius summit on July 11-12 shall be attended by most leaders of the Atlantic alliance, Lithuania presidential workplace mentioned. That contains U.S. President Joe Biden, who unexpectedly visited Kyiv this week.

“That is our plan,” ambassador Petro Beshta mentioned in regards to the Zelenskiy go to in an interview with BNS revealed on Wednesday.

Ukraine hopes attendees on the summit would agree “very clearly that as soon as the war is over, Ukraine becomes a member of NATO”, the ambassador mentioned.