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105 British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (R) and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talk during their bilateral gathering astatine the European Political Community (EPC) Summit successful Bulboaca connected June 1, 2023 adjacent Chisinau, Moldova.
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U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Thursday that Ukraine's "rightful place" is wrong the NATO subject alliance.
Sunak said helium agreed with comments made earlier Thursday by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg that Ukraine is connected the way toward NATO membership.
"I hold with the NATO Secretary-General: Ukraine's rightful spot is successful NATO," Sunak told CNBC's Silvia Amaro.
Sunak said that allied nations were sending a "strong signal" to Russian President Vladimir Putin that they would safeguard Ukraine's information arrangements for the agelong term.
"We privation to marque definite that we enactment successful spot information arrangements for Ukraine for the agelong term, truthful that we nonstop a precise beardown awesome to Vladimir Putin that we're not going anywhere," helium said.
"We are present to enactment and we volition continuing backing Ukraine, not conscionable present but for years into the future."
Earlier Thursday, Stoltenberg said "NATO's doorway is unfastened for caller members," up of a gathering of overseas ministers successful Oslo, Norway.
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during the London Defense Conference, astatine King's College, successful cardinal London, connected May 23, 2023.
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Stoltenberg said that each members agreed that Ukraine volition go a subordinate of the alliance, though helium did not springiness a circumstantial timeline for the enlargement.
"All allies besides hold that Ukraine volition go a subordinate of the alliance, and each allies hold that it is for the NATO allies and Ukraine to determine erstwhile Ukraine becomes a member," Stoltenberg said.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Sunak successful the U.K. past period arsenic portion of a circuit of Western allies to sermon the proviso of further subject enactment for Ukraine.
Following the talks, the U.K. agreed that it would nonstop hundreds of aerial defence missiles and equipped drones to Ukraine. It comes successful summation to the Storm Shadow cruise missiles Britain announced a week earlier.
The caller provisions travel arsenic Ukraine continues to hole for a highly anticipated counter-offensive against Russia.
