#VilniusNATOSummit Ukraine's membership of the Alliance: mission possible!

During his first visit to Kyiv since Russia launched its large-scale war against Ukraine, NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, asserted that Ukraine should become a member of NATO, a move supported by all members of the Alliance. The aim of the event, which was organised as part of the Yak Vdoma project, was therefore to create a forum for debate with regard to Ukraine's perspective of its integration into the transatlantic Alliance and the way in which this topic will be broached by Ukrainian authorities and their partners at the Vilnius Summit

The event was hosted by Kristina Zeleniuk, a journalist specialising in Ukraine's foreign policy on the country's "1+1" television channel and resident of the Yak Vdoma shelter in Bucharest.

Speakers present included the Ukrainian Ambassador to Romania, Ihor Prokopchuk; Igor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (online); Svitlana Panyushkina, Editor-in-Chief at TSN.ua, who spoke about the experience of living under Russian occupation near Kyiv in March 2022 (online); Oleksandr Merezhko, Chair of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament (online); Pavel Popescu, Romanian MP and member of the Defence Committee and the Romanian Delegation to the NATO PA; Mariia Zolkina, researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Head of Regional Security and Conflict Studies at the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation (online); Mircea Pascu, former Minister of Defence for Romania; Mykhailo Samus, Director of the New Geopolitics Research Network; Michał Marek, founder of the Research Center for Contemporary Security Environment; and Florin-Eusebiu Slavitescu, expert from the Euro-Atlantic Centre for Resilience, Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Watch the debate: .