Estonian prime minister criticises disagreements on Ukraine's NATO membership

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has backed Ukraine's membership in NATO, recalling that there were doubts about the necessity of the alliance's enlargement even during the accession of the Eastern European countries.

Kallas made the remarks before the start of the NATO summit in Vilnius, European Pravda reports.

She recalled the disagreements that exist between NATO states on the accession of Ukraine and recalled that doubts were also during the accession of the Baltic States.

According to Kallas, a book she recently read about the history of NATO explains that Germany was against the Visegrad Group countries joining the Alliance, but the argument worked that it was better to let the Poles rather than the Germans fight the Russians.

"So what we have now is that Ukrainians are fighting, not Germans, not Estonians, not Americans," said the Estonian Prime Minister.

As reported, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda sees the willingness of NATO leaders to make a decision where there will be a mention of a certain "invitation" for Ukraine.

Gitanas Nauseda emphasized that it is important for Lithuania not to repeat the formula of "open doors", which is considered outdated and failed. "But there will be a very clear signal that we are not repeating the formula of the Bucharest summit," he said, recalling, in particular, that the Alliance agreed to Ukraine's rapid accession without the Membership Action Plan (MAP).