Zelenskiy Tours about NATO states in front coalition summit<br> *<br> Prague says Ukraine's next is in NATO and EU<br> *<br> Zelenskiy says Ukraine needs long-kitchen stove weapons<br> (Adds Zelenskiy in paragraph 5-6, Slovak President of the United States paragraph 11)<br> By Henry Martyn Robert Muller<br> PRAGUE, July 7 (Reuters) - The principal of NATO said on Fri the military machine alliance would unite at a peak adjacent hebdomad on how to contribute Kyiv finisher to joining, model pagar beton minimalis while Ukraine's prexy drummed up keep for its membership entreat on a term of enlistment of several North Atlantic Treaty Organization states.<br> Chairman Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the Geographical region Democracy and Slovakia a solar day subsequently holding negotiation in Bulgaria, and was owed to move around to Joker later on on Fri.<br> In Prague, he South Korean won a toast of affirm for Ukraine to union NATO "as soon as the war (with Russia) is over", and in Serdica bonded mount for membership "as soon as conditions allow".<br> Slovakia aforesaid the enquiry of Kyiv's membership was "when", non "if".<br> At a news program league in Bratislava, Zelenskiy said he expected unity among North Atlantic Treaty Organization member states at the July 11-12 top in Wilno and cherished concrete steps on Ukraine's campaign to junction the alinement.<br> "There is strength in unity of NATO," he said, adding that open questions all over Ukraine's time to come in NATO and Sweden's pending membership were "a threat to the alliance's strength".<br> All the same it remains indecipherable what Ukraine wish be offered in the Lithuanian capital letter.
The alignment is divided o'er how firm Ukraine should travel towards membership, and roughly countries are untrusting of whatsoever mistreat that power payoff NATO finisher to warfare with Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.<br> Zelenskiy has acknowledged that Kyiv is unconvincing to be able-bodied to join NATO spell at warfare with Soviet Union.<br> NATO Secretary-Ecumenical Jens Stoltenberg reaffirmed his see that Ukraine would suit a appendage.<br> "Our summit will send a clear message: NATO stands united, and Russia's aggression will not pay," Stoltenberg told a news league in Belgian capital.<br> Slovak Chairperson Zuzana Caputova said she potential the acme to bring forth a thickening of hardheaded and persuasion cooperation with Ukraine, "for example in the form of the creation of a NATO-Ukraine Council".<br> Country United States President Vladimir Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has cited NATO's expansion towards Russia's borders ended the past tense two decades as a conclude for his decision to place tens of thousands of military personnel into Ukraine on Feb.
24, 2022.<br> He has threatened unspecified activity if Ukraine joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization.<br> Negotiation Owed IN TURKEY<br> Despite Russia's anger, Czech Choice Pastor Petr Fiala told a news program conference with Zelenskiy in Praha that he potential totally NATO allies to accompaniment Ukrayina in its membership aspirations.<br> "I am convinced that the future of Ukraine is in the European Union, the future of Ukraine is in NATO, and this will ensure that a situation like the one we are experiencing in Europe will not happen again," Fiala aforementioned.<br> Zelenskiy and Fiala visited a memorial consecrate to Czechoslovakia's 1989 Velvety Revolution protests that peacefully overthrew Communist prevail.
The talker of the let down family of sevens gave Zelenskiy a opprobrious T-shirt expression "Russia is a terrorist state", a idiomatic expression from a 2022 legislative declaration.<br> Prag has been a impregnable angel of Kyiv, providing military machine help and former help, and Fiala promised More round helicopters and hundreds of thousands more than large-bore ammunition rounds.<br> Zelenskiy welcomed the "new, powerful, very timely defence package" just said More weapons were requisite.<br> "Without long-range weapons it is difficult not only to carry out an offensive mission but also to conduct a defensive operation," he said.
"First of all, we are talking about long-range systems with the United States and it depends only on them today."<br> Kyiv says it has taken rear a clump of villages in southern Ukrayina since unveiling a counteroffensive in ahead of time June, simply that it lacks the firepower and melodic phrase cover version to pull in faster advance.<br> Subsequently his negotiation in Prague and Slovakia, Zelenskiy was due to satisfy Turkish Chairperson Tayyip Erdogan in Stamboul.<br> State officials aforesaid the deuce leadership would discuss the potential drop elongation of a wartime granulate hand allowing the secure exportation of Ukrainian ingrain via the Mordant Ocean.<br> Russia, wild just about aspects of the food grain deal's implementation, has threatened not to provide its encourage extension beyond July 17.<br> (Extra coverage by Jason Hovet and by Pavel Polityuk and Olena Harmash in Kyiv, Piece of writing by Herd's grass Heritage, Editing by Gareth Jones and Philippa Fletcher)<br>
