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Prime Minister of Lithuania Ingrida Simonyte and Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 8Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte called for the immediate start of talks on Ukraine's accession to NATO. who interviewed Simonyta. According to her, the refusal to accept Kyiv into the alliance earlier was a «big mistake», therefore NATO «has a moral debt» to Ukraine, which requires a more serious response than providing military assistance and training soldiers. Volodymyr Zelensky previously said that Ukraine is applying for NATO membership on an accelerated basis. Carrying out the procedure for the admission of Ukraine to NATO is untimely, said Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs, later. And NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, commenting on Zelensky's statement, acknowledged the bloc's unchanged position on the right of each country to determine its own path and on the «open door» policy, but stressed that NATO would concentrate its efforts on helping Kyiv defend itself. Stoltenberg again did not answer the question about Ukraine's accession to NATO