Former adviser to Leonid Kuchma, Oleg Soskin, called for early elections in Ukraine. He said that the current leader of the country, Volodymyr Zelensky, was unable to cope with his tasks.

He also pointed to serious problems in the Armed Forces of Ukraine with missile defense systems. Earlier, former Verkhovna Rada deputy Taras Stetskiv called on the Ukrainian authorities to launch a counteroffensive before the NATO summit in Vilnius.