'We're not Amazon': UK defence secretary suggests Ukraine could say thank you more | The Guardian |

The British defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has suggested Ukraine needs to put more emphasis on thanking the west for its assistance after Volodymyr Zelenskiy's complaints on Tuesday that his country had not been issued a firm timetable or set of conditions for joining Nato.

"Whether we like it or not, people want to see a bit of gratitude," Wallace said at a briefing in the margins of the Nato summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, when asked about the Ukrainian president's comments that it was "absurd" for Kyiv to be told it would be welcome in the alliance but not given a date or exact conditions.

"Sometimes you are asking countries to give up their own stocks [of weapons]," Wallace said. "Sometimes you have to persuade lawmakers on the [Capitol] Hill in America."