In his speech at the solemn session of the parliament devoted to the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Charter on the distinctive partnership between Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Andriy Parubiy, stated that the Crimea has become a springboard for Russia's actions in Syria.

In speaking about the "occupation" of the Crimea, he noted that "the seizure of the peninsula and the possible deployment of nuclear weapons there …

Ukraine has asked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to provide defensive lethal weapons, as stated by the Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze.

"We are asking for defensive lethal weapons to protect ourselves and our land, in order to do it more effectively, so that there are fewer military losses and that there are fewer civilian losses," Klympush-Tsintsadze said.

She stressed the need for such weapons to counter Russian …

The President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Paolo Alli expressed his confidence that Ukraine will become a member of the North Atlantic Alliance in the future. He stated this at a joint briefing with Andriy Parubiy, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, who recently said that Ukraine should become the next NATO member after Montenegro.

“There is still much to be done along the way but we see very great progress and we are confident that Ukraine will become a NATO member. We, the …