The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky arrived today at Bratislava, another stop on his tour aimed at securing more weapons from the West and allied support for Kiev’s ambition to join NATO.

“Mr. Zelensky arrived this afternoon at the invitation of Slovak President Zuzana Czaputova,” Slovakian presidency spokesman Martin Strizinec told AFP.

Discussions in Bratislava will focus on “strong support for defense, Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration, the NATO summit and the ‘peace formula’, bilateral cooperation and energy security,” the Ukrainian president said. in a post on Twitter.

Bratislava is the penultimate stop, after Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, on Zelensky’s tour before next week’s NATO summit in Vilnius. The Ukrainian president will then travel to Istanbul, where he will meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.