Chairwoman of the Committee on Ukraine's Integration into the EU Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, who is also a member of the Ukraine-NATO Interparliamentary Council, participated in the work of the Ukraine-NATO Interparliamentary Council in Brussels. Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze noted that it is critical to maintain interparliamentary dialogue with Alliance member states and ensure their broad representation. The geopolitical context is now complicated due to uncertainty about the future role of the United States in the Alliance, on which the transatlantic security architecture depends. “I tried to persuade our partners that under no circumstances should Ukraine's future invitation and membership in the Alliance be a bargaining chip or a subject of negotiations in the context of ending the war with the Russian Federation. Putin must realise that this is not an issue that he has any influence on,” said the Chairwoman of the Committee on Ukraine’s Integration into the EU. She recalled that the Washington Summit had decided on the irreversibility of Ukraine’s membership in the Alliance. “As the next step during the upcoming summit in The Hague, we would like to see a resolute continuation of this policy and an invitation to Ukraine to join the Alliance. Unfortunately, at the moment, there is no consensus in the Alliance regarding such an invitation to Ukraine,” said Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze. Therefore, according to her, it is critically important to continue to look for ways to substantiate that Ukraine’s membership in NATO is the only possible guarantee of security for Ukraine and the only possible guarantee of sustainable and lasting peace on the European continent. She is convinced that as long as Russia feels that it can influence the disagreement within the Alliance regarding Ukraine’s membership, it will use it to the maximum. “It is an absolute myth that the war started because of the expansion of the Alliance. And the refutation of this fiction is that Russia simply swallowed the expansion of its border with the Alliance by more than a thousand kilometres, as well as the NATO membership of Finland and Sweden,” Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze said. “At a time when Putin has no intention of stopping the war and talking about peace based on international law, we must discuss not only the preservation of support for Ukraine, but also the need to immediately increase it,” emphasised the Chair of the Committee on Ukraine’s Integration into the EU.

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze also believes that the European members of NATO should bear additional costs to ensure their defence. “The decision made in Wales in 2019 to increase defence spending in the Alliance to 2% of GDP should have been implemented by the beginning of 2025. Especially considering that the security situation has changed significantly after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today, when seven Alliance member states do not even meet this requirement, we hear US President Donald Trump stating his expectation that all European Alliance member states should spend up to 5% of their GDP. And this certainly corresponds to the reality we are facing today,” said the Chair of the Committee. According to her, Poland has already increased its defence spending by more than 4.7% of GDP, and other countries should follow this example.