BRUSSELS, February 24. /TASS/. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has invited Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to take part in the next summit of the organization, which will take place in Vilnius in July.

Stoltenberg said on Friday at a press conference in Tallinn that he had invited the Ukrainian president to join the NATO countries for an organization’s summit in Vilnius in July.

The NATO chief expressed hope that Zelensky would be able to attend the summit in person, but said that he understood that this depended on the situation in Ukraine.

The meeting of 30 heads of NATO states and governments will take place in Vilnius on July 11-12.