The 2% of GDP to be allocated to military spending will no longer be a possibility but a constraint for the countries that are part of the NATO. The secretary general did not say so clearly Stoltenberg but insiders are certain that at the next summit in July a Vilnius the new posture will be made official which provides for the minimum level to be reached: 2% of GDP. It is no coincidence that yesterday, during the meeting of foreign ministers, Stoltenberg however, he anticipated that the allies' financial commitment of 2% of GDP is no longer a goal towards which to proceed, but will become a minimum level required.

The acceleration towards a common partnership because NATO intends to provide Ukraine with a long-term support to allow him to reach the military standards of the Alliance, an essential condition for then thinking about a real entry into the Organization.

The Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, on the affair, said: “We are in favor of proceeding in that direction. But we need to look at the budgets because it's not an adjustment that can be done with a magic wand".  "Is critical, he precised Tajani, that Europe works to rationalize spending. The European defense system must be part of the NATO system".

Meantime Volodymyr Zelensky flew to Warsaw to ask for more fighters Mig-29. Warsaw will give Kiev another 10 Mig-29s in addition to the 4 already delivered. Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, welcomed the Belarusian president to Moscow, Alexander Lukashenko to discuss trade and especially Ukraine, in view of new initiatives on the various front lines opened during the war.

Vladimir Putin, on the occasion of the credentialing ceremony for 17 new ambassadors, assured that Moscow does not want to isolate itself and wants to remain open to cooperation.

However, Putin did not miss the wonderful opportunity to launch direct attacks on the West, accusing his intelligence services of the involvement and preparation of sabotage and terrorist acts then carried out by Ukraine (the reference to the recent attack in St. Petersburg was veiled ). The Russian president then welcomed the new American ambassador Lynne Tracy and its European colleague Roland Galharague.

Addressing the American ambassador, he accused the US of having supported the Maidan uprising of 2014 and of having therefore caused the current situation, a conflict that is now in the hot phase. The Russian deputy minister reiterated the concept Ryabkov who emphasized that Moscow and Washington are in a phase of hot conflict, underlining the military activities in progress: Russian air force crews have just carried out bombing exercises in a training field near Kaliningrad, right in the Baltic area.

Putin then addressed the representative of the European Union and said that it was the EU that had begun the geopolitical confrontation with Moscow.

However, global diplomatic meetings continue in an attempt to curb a possible escalation. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov will go into Turkey and Macron è von der Lyen I am in China.  Macron said China, with its good ties with the Kremlin, could play an important role in finding a way to peace.

In Warsaw, however, the Ukrainian president Zelensky declared that the situation is difficult and that a withdrawal could be decided in case of threat of huge losses of soldiers. However, the president specified, Kiev continues to claim that it wants to regain possession of all its territories illegally annexed by Russia, including the Crimea, within six months.

Military spending at 2% of GDP, NATO will impose it as a minimum requirement, while Putin warns: "we are in a hot war"