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NATO Invites Ukraine to Hague Summit as Trump Confirms Attendance

Featuring a formal invite for Ukraine alongside Trump’s first post-election appearance, the June 24–26 summit will set long-term defense spending goals for the alliance.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda welcomes Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during the NATO Bucharest Nine meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania June 2, 2025. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth meets with Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz at the Pentagon, Tuesday, May 27, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics, Estonian President Alar Karis, Polish President Andrzej Duda, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Romanian President Nicusor Dan, Czech Republic's President Petr Pavel, Slovakia's President Peter Pellegrini, Bulgarian Defense Minister Atanas Zapryanov, Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, Iceland's Foreign Minister Katrin Gunnarsdottir and Hungarian Defence Minister Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky pose for a family picture during the NATO Bucharest Nine meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania June 2, 2025. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

Overview

  • NATO has extended a formal invitation to Ukraine to attend the June 24–26 summit in The Hague, marking an unprecedented inclusion of Kyiv in alliance deliberations.
  • President Donald Trump will attend the meeting, underscoring his push for members to raise defense budgets and signaling U.S. engagement on Euro-Atlantic security.
  • Secretary General Mark Rutte has proposed a phased target of 3.5 percent of GDP on direct military spending plus 1.5 percent on broader security-related outlays by 2032, a timeline some allies deem too slow.
  • Leaders of the Bucharest Nine and Nordic countries reiterated their commitment to Ukraine’s irreversible path to NATO membership and rejected Russian demands to halt alliance expansion.
  • Separate talks in Istanbul produced another prisoner exchange but failed to secure an immediate ceasefire as Russia maintains conditions to stop NATO enlargement and ease sanctions.