The NATO summit ended in Washington. Main

The Alliance said that Ukraine is "on an irreversible path to complete Euro -Atlantic integration"

Ukraine is “on an irreversible path to complete Euro -Atlantic integration, including NATO membership,” according to the commmit in Washington, according to the results of the results of the alliance summit. The text contains a promise to support Kyiv on this path; An invitation to join the alliance of Ukraine will be sent, "when the allies agree and the conditions will be met."

The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky attended Washington as part of the Ukrainian delegation and held a series of bilateral negotiations with representatives of the participating countries. During the summit, it was also announced that the USA, the Netherlands and Denmark had already transferred F-16 fighters to Kiev. In addition, it is expected that according to the results of the meeting with Zelensky in the evening of July 11, Joe Biden will announce to Ukraine a package of military aid for $ 225 million.

Update. The United States announced the new military assistance to Ukraine for $ 225 million. It will include the Patriot air defense system, NASAMS air defense shells and other ammunition.

Before the start of the summit, it became known that Ukraine intends to seek from the United States permission to use ATACMS long-range missiles for strikes on the international recognized territory of Russia, but it was not reported to achieve any agreements on this issue-neither publicly nor informally through publications in the media.

According to the results of the summit, Russia was called "the most significant and direct threat to security" , which will remain in the long run. In the communique it was emphasized that Moscow bears the sole responsibility for the war with Ukraine, which "seriously undermined global security." “We most decisively condemn the terrifying attacks of Russia on the Ukrainian people, including the hospital on July 8. Russia must immediately stop this war and completely and unconditionally withdraw all its forces from Ukraine in accordance with the resolutions of the UN General Assembly, ”the statement said.

At the same time, the communique emphasizes that NATO does not seek confrontation with Russia and does not pose a threat to it. The alliance countries said they were ready to maintain communication channels with Moscow in order to reduce the risks of escalation.

Participants in the summit made a tough critic of China . Beijing, as noted in the final declaration, “continues to challenge the interests, security and values” of the alliance. The allies first openly accused China of supporting Russia of the war, drawing attention to the “large-scale support of the defense and industrial base” of the Russian Federation by Beijing.

In China, in response, they stated that they resolutely rejects all the accusations and consider them “biased, slanderous and provocative”, adding that the Alliance is a “cross of the Cold War”. The Chinese Foreign Ministry accused the United States of the “defamatory lies” factory and attempts to undermine Beijing’s cooperation with the EU. The foreign ministry demanded that the alliance “remain in the framework of its role in the regional defense organization in the North Atlantic”, without involving Asia in its sphere of activity.

During the summit, it became known about the placement of American long -range weapons in Germany . The corresponding statement of the two countries, published on the day of July 11, implies the deployment of SM-6 missiles, Tomahawk and the developed hypersonic weapons, "possessing a much larger range than the current ground firewood in Europe." This is the first case since the Cold War, when a weapon that can hit targets in Russia will be placed on the territory of Germany. The Russian Foreign Ministry called the agreement “a link in the escalation course” and “one of the elements of intimidation” of Moscow, promising to develop a military response.