
Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov stated that his state is awaiting an invitation to participate in the NATO summit, held in Germany at the initiative of the United States.
The Pentagon has invited 40 allies to meet in Germany on April 26 to discuss Ukraine and long-term security needs.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby has said the defense ministers and senior generals of 20 states, members and non-MEMBERS of NATO, have already accepted the invitation of U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
The meeting is said to be held at the U.S. air base in Germany.
Ukrainians continue to fight with Russian forces, who are trying to take control of ukraine's east and south now and two months since the war began.
Meanwhile, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for the purpose of discussing peace in Ukraine.
Ukraine has included the goal of NATO membership in its constitution, although the state's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has acknowledged that such a thing is unlikely to happen in the near future.
U.S. President Joe Biden and other leaders have sent significant amounts of weapons to Ukraine and warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that his forces should not cross "any inc" of NATO member state territory.