Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy been invited to attend the annual NATO summit in Ankara in July, the alliance's Secretary General Mark Rutte confirmed on Friday.
"I invited him already," Rutte said at a press conference following a foreign ministers meeting in Sweden. "He will be there."
Zelenskyy’s invitation was in a limited form at last year’s meet at the Hague, at the behest of the Trump administration.
It’s unclear how many of the private sessions within the summit Zelenskyy will attend this year.
Last year, the White House insisted on reducing the focus on the war in Ukraine, instead Washington demanded allies commit to spending 5% of GDP on defence as the central deliverable of the entire two days.
