Lithuanian PM calls for immediate negotiations on Ukraine's accession to NATO 

Negotiations for Ukraine to join NATO should begin immediately, Lithuania's prime minister told Insider, Report informs.

In an interview Thursday, Ingrida Šimonytė said that Ukraine tried to join NATO in 2008, but Russia responded angrily, and the process ground to a halt.

Šimonytė said she thought this was a "great mistake" that helped encourage Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, its long war in the Donbas region, and the full-scale war of 2022.

She said that NATO owes "a sort of a moral debt" because of such missteps that demand a fuller response than giving the current military aid and training.