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NATO Invites Ukraine to Hague Summit, Proposes Defense Spending Acceleration

Allies will focus on supporting Kyiv, accelerating budgets after Istanbul peace talks failed to secure a ceasefire.

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
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
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Overview

  • Ukraine received a formal invitation to attend NATO’s June 24–26 summit in The Hague, underlining its path toward Euro-Atlantic integration.
  • NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte confirmed that sustaining military assistance to Kyiv will be a primary agenda item at the summit.
  • Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that a 2032 spending target for defense boosts must be brought forward to meet current security needs.
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded written guarantees against further NATO expansion and the lifting of sanctions as conditions for ending the war.
  • Recent peace talks in Istanbul between Ukraine and Russia collapsed without a ceasefire agreement, with Moscow proposing only short‐term truces.