The West calls Mr. Zelensky's presence at NATO an 'extra'
The recent NATO summit was said to be a disappointment for Mr Zelensky, who did not receive any concrete financial commitments from his Western partners.
According to RT on June 27, Western media described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as just a supporting character at the NATO summit in The Hague.
The German newspaper Die Welt said that the Ukrainian leader is currently “not very well”. According to this publication, the NATO summit was also a “disappointment” for Mr. Zelensky: at the meeting of NATO leaders, “he was just an extra person”.
According to Die Welt, Mr. Zelensky has not received any specific financial commitments from Western partners, nor has he received any new promises about weapons supplies.
The US news agency Bloomberg noted that some aspects of the meeting "certainly disappointed Volodymyr Zelensky, who looked sad at the summit".
The outcome of the meeting was also commented on by the British newspaper The Telegraph. Accordingly, although the alliance affirmed that NATO's position on the conflict in Ukraine "has not changed", it was clearly less rigid. At the same time, the summit did not change Mr. Zelensky's difficult situation: "Despite the usual statements of support, there was no relief for his country, which is in a difficult situation," said the Telegraph.
The NATO summit was held on June 24-25 in The Hague (Netherlands). During this event, US President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. According to the Republican Party, the two leaders did not discuss the ceasefire. Instead, President Trump "just wanted to know what Mr. Zelensky was doing."
In contrast, Mr Zelensky claimed that the discussion was "long and meaningful" and that the two leaders discussed "all the really important issues", including the ceasefire.
During a press conference at the NATO summit, the US President also said that his promise to end the conflict in Ukraine within 24 hours was "ironic". When asked why he had not yet been able to resolve the Ukraine crisis, Mr. Trump said that the situation was "more difficult than other wars".
The NATO statement adopted after the meeting in The Hague did not mention the possibility of Ukraine joining the alliance. Instead, the countries limited themselves to confirming their support for Kiev and ensuring that, for this purpose, they would take into account direct contributions to Ukraine's defense and funding for its military industry when calculating defense spending.
