President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy yexpressed gratitude to the partners "who are working with us to strengthen the Alliance and thus to ensure security in Europe – real security."

"Today, in conversations with the President of France, the Prime Minister of Sweden and the NATO Secretary General, we have coordinated our steps in the run-up to Vilnius. I also held several meetings with government officials and the Office's international team to prepare for foreign policy events that will take place in the near future," he said in a video address on Tuesday.

Zelenskyy also thanked the Prime Minister of Sweden "for the fact that today the weapons we had agreed on – missiles and tanks – have begun to arrive."