Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite has said that Europe, after the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius, "lost the Ukrainian leadership, but gained the Ukrainian people," and future relations between Kyiv and Brussels will depend only on their political will.

The head of the Lithuanian state, which presided at the EU in the second half of 2013, said this at a press conference in Strasbourg on Tuesday, while speaking about the results of the Eastern Partnership summit, which was held in Vilnius on November 28-29.

"After this summit Ukraine will not be the same as it was before, and the Ukrainian people will also not be the same. We really lost the current leadership of Ukraine, but we gained the Ukrainian people, we gained their fight for the future," Grybauskaite said.

She noted that "this encourages us to never give up under any external pressure from anyone."

"Probably we will again see this [pressure] in future, and politically we can struggle with any external pressure," she said.

In this regard, Grybauskaite said that "assistance to the country that wants to get closer to the EU" would depend only on "the political will of the Ukrainian people and our governments in Europe."

In addition, another result of the summit was the understanding of "what is happening to our strategic partner, Russia, and what is happening on our borders," she said.

"The Eastern Partnership summit was important to all of us, not only to the Lithuanian presidency, and its result is also very important to the European future," Grybauskaite said.