Ukraine hopes to receive an offer of NATO membership as early as this summer, according to parliamentary speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk. "We expect Ukraine to get an invitation at the Vilnius summit and start its way into the alliance," Stefanchuk told Ukrainian television on February 18. Stefanchuk noted that on the fringes of the Munich Security Conference currently under way in the German city, "questions related to an invitation to Ukraine to join NATO are already being discussed." The NATO summit is scheduled for July 11-12 in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
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