President in Munich: Ukraine’s victory has to be the goal of all democratic countries

On Friday, President Gitanas Nausėda participated in a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference, where he stressed that the most important common goal of the democratic world today was Ukraine’s victory over the aggressor Russia, and that the fundamental pillars for this victory were a strong transatlantic bond and a determination to defend democratic values, the presidency said in a press release.

Addressing the heads of state and security experts assembled in Germany, the Lithuanian president stressed that even as Ukraine achieved victory on the battlefield, Russia’s threat to the continent would not disappear, and that European countries therefore needed to step up their defence spending commitments to ensure the robustness and effectiveness of deterrence and defence.