It seems that Lithuanian elites are asleep at controls of our country and just dreaming about Ukraine's NATO membership - nothing is coming out of it in reality. What a waste...

"President Volodymyr Zelensky left open the possibility of dropping his country’s ambition to join the NATO alliance — a move that would help fulfill one of Mr. Putin’s key demands.
At a news conference, Mr. Zelensky emphasized that NATO membership was “for our security,” with the goal of joining the alliance written into the country’s constitution. But he acknowledged the difficult place the country found itself in, nearly completely encircled by Russian forces and with partners like the United States insisting they would not send troops into Ukraine to repel a Russian invasion.

“How much should Ukraine go on that path?” Mr. Zelensky said of NATO membership. “Who will support us?”

The prospect of Ukraine joining NATO, he posited, could be “like a dream.”

Mr. Zelensky spoke alongside Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, the latest Western leader trying shuttle diplomacy to avert war.

Since December, the Ukrainian government has been quietly pursuing negotiations that could lead to acceptance of some form of neutrality, or another solution more narrowly focused on Russian demands in a cease-fire agreement in the long-running conflict in eastern Ukraine.
In a televised address to the nation on Monday evening, Mr. Zelensky struck a tone that was less dismissive of the threat of Russian military action than his previous comments. Mr. Zelensky said he had declared Wednesday — the date U.S. officials had suggested as a possible date for the start of a Russian incursion — as a day of “national unity.”
Mr. Zelensky said that previous predictions by Western governments of a possible start of war had proven wrong and said there was no reason to worry on Wednesday.
In public, officials including the Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, have rejected concessions as counterproductive and likely only to encourage further Russian aggression. But Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine’s ambassador to Britain and a former foreign minister under Mr. Zelensky, on Sunday said his government was “flexible in trying to find the best way out” and was considering dropping the country’s NATO ambitions.
He was asked in a BBC interview: “If it averts war, will your country contemplate not joining NATO, dropping that as a goal?”
He replied: “We might, especially being threatened like that, blackmailed like that, and pushed to it.”

His comments caused a stir, and the Ukrainian government quickly sought to clarify the matter. Oleh Nikolenko, the foreign ministry spokesman, tweeted that Mr. Prystaiko’s comments had been reported out of context. “Ukraine’s position remains unchanged,” he said. “The goal of NATO membership is enshrined in the constitution.”
But Mr. Zelensky did not disavow Mr. Prystaiko’s comment. He said it reflected suggestions the Ukrainian government has received including from foreign leaders. These he characterized as “hinting just a tiny bit to Ukraine that it’s possible to not risk it and constantly hit on the question about future membership in the alliance, because these risks are linked to a reaction from Russia.”
About this line of discussion with Ukraine’s Western allies, Mr. Zelensky said, “It seems to me that no one is hiding it anymore.”
Mr. Scholz, standing beside Mr. Zelensky while speaking with reporters, agreed that NATO membership for Ukraine was in any case “not on the agenda” right now.
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, speaking before Mr. Zelensky’s news conference in Kyiv, welcomed the ambassador’s comments while acknowledging the response from the Ukrainian foreign ministry.
“Clearly, Ukraine’s confirmed rejection of the idea of joining NATO would be a step that would significantly facilitate the formulation of a better response to Russia’s concerns,” Mr. Peskov said on Monday. But given the confusion around the comments, he added: “We cannot interpret it as a fact that Kyiv’s conceptual worldview has changed.”"