NATO will coordinate military assistance to Ukraine instead of the US. From now on, NATO will play a direct role in Ukraine’s war against Russia, although the involvement of Alliance troops is not envisaged. At the same time, the transfer of control to NATO coordin... #NATO #NSATU #Ramstein #WarinUkraine
Ukraine will spend 10 times more on its defense than NATO countries in 2025; the EU is not ready for war with Russia. Next year, Ukraine will spend about 25% of its GDP on defense, which is 900% more than European NATO allies’ average, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said during a keynote speech in Brussels. ... #DefenseIndustryEU #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseSpending #MarkRutte #NATO #WarinUkraine #WeaponsProduction
Trump is mulling three options for peace in Ukraine and none involve NATO membership. US President-Elect Donald Trump has three main proposals for ending Russia’s war against Ukraine, none of which involve Ukraine joining NATO: a plan by Special Representative for Ukraine and Rus... #DonaldTrump #JDVance #KeithKellogg #NATO #RichardGrenell #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarEnding
Ukraine’s partial NATO accession is technically possible; the question is the political will of Ukraine’s allies. Technically, the accession of part of Ukraine to NATO is possible and would have precedent, following the examples of Germany before its unification and certain islands co-owned by France and the UK t... #Article5 #Germany #JensStoltenberg #NATO #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
NATO is discussing scenarios for ending the war in Ukraine through negotiations. The governments of some NATO member states are talking about different scenarios that include security guarantees for Ukraine but also seek to avoid provoking Russian President Putin. According to sou... #MarkRutte #NATO #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Europe rushes to create a €500B defense fund as Trump nears his return to the White House. EU countries are discussing a €500B joint fund for defense projects and arms purchases. US President-Elect Trump’s threat to scrap security guarantees for NATO allies that underspend on defense and su... #DefenseIndustryEU #DefenseInvestments #DonaldTrump #EUdefense #NATO
Ukraine will not agree to any alternatives other than NATO membership, although it will not receive an invitation soon. Ukraine will not agree to any other options, such as surrogates or substitutes for full NATO membership, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stressed on the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Budapest ... #BudapestMemorandum #NATO #SecurityGuarantees #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
Two European countries are discussing the deployment of troops on the contact line in Ukraine. According to an anonymous senior NATO official, the United Kingdom and France are considering various options to guarantee Ukraine’s security if peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow are launched ... #France #GreatBritain #NATO #NATOsoldiers #SecurityGuarantees #WarinUkraine
A “temporary concession” of the occupied territories in exchange for security guarantees could be an option for ending the war – Stoltenberg. Former NATO Secretary General and next Chairman of the Munich Security Conference Jens Stoltenberg believes that a “temporary concession” of Ukraine’s occupied territories to Russia ... #JensStoltenberg #NATO #SecurityGuarantees #TerritorialConcessions #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The US has rejected the possibility of returning Ukraine’s nuclear status. The Biden administration has excluded the possibility of returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine, stated US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. He denied information from Western media that the admi... #JakeSullivan #JoeBiden #NATO #NuclearStatusUkraine #NuclearWeapons #Putin
Zelenskyy is considering halting the war in exchange for Ukraine’s invitation to NATO, and the occupied territories will be returned diplomatically. President Zelenskyy said that the allies should offer NATO membership to the unoccupied portion of Ukraine to end the “hot phase of the war.” He believes that the occupied territories can ... #Crimea #DonaldTrump #NATO #OccupiedTerritories #Putin #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The head of German intelligence says Russia plans to test the effectiveness of NATO’s collective defense. Bruno Kahl, the head of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), believes that Russia continues to prepare for an actual military confrontation with Western countries, but a full-scale atta... #Article5 #BalticCountries #BrunoKahl #NATO #RussianAggression #Spitsbergen
Ukrainians want their country to regain its nuclear status more than they desire NATO membership. After the war’s end, among the main priorities for the state’s development, Ukrainians include the restoration of the state’s nuclear status in the top three most desired priorities,... #EuropeanIntegration #NATO #NuclearStatusUkraine #RepatriationInUkraine #UkraineEconomy #UkraineRecovery
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly urges member countries to provide Ukraine with missiles possessing ranges of 1,000-5,500 kilometers and admission to the Alliance. The NATO Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution calling on the governments of the Alliance member states to provide Ukraine with medium-range missiles as a deterrent and weapon of self-defense. T... #LongRangeMissiles #NATO #NATOexpansion #NATOParliamentaryAssembly #NorthKorea #UkraineNATO
The largest EU economies will issue joint defense bonds to stop the Russian Federation’s “imperial ambitions.” During a meeting of heads of foreign affairs from five EU countries, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Poland gave their support to a proposal to create joint European defense bonds to strengthen the... #DefenseBonds #investments #NATO #RadosławSikorski #SupportUkraine #WeaponsProduction
Europe and Canada must unite to guarantee Ukraine’s security amid Trump’s return to the White House. As stated in an open appeal, which was signed by 79 current and former politicians, military personnel, and political scientists who are anxiously waiting to see what Trump will do when he begins his ... #DonaldTrump #DonaldTusk #NATO #SecurityGuarantees #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Europe must double its defense spending after Trump’s inauguration; Poland will produce explosives and ammunition. Europe will probably have to double its defense spending to address the challenge of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, as well as a possible reduction in American support with Donald Trump... #DefenseIndustryEU #EUdefense #NATO #Poland #WarinUkraine #WeaponsProduction
At the G20 summit, Erdogan plans to propose that the war in Ukraine be frozen. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intends to present his proposal for freezing the war in Ukraine “at the current level” at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. According to Erdogan̵... #Brazil #FrozenConflict #G20 #NATO #Putin #RecepTayyipErdoğan #SergeiLavrov #WarinUkraine
What can Trump demand from Putin in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine? Former Deputy Secretary General of NATO Rose Gottemoeller believes that newly elected US President Donald Trump has every opportunity to change the war’s dynamics. Putin presumably wants to retu... #DonaldTrump #LongRangeStrikesOnRussia #NATO #Putin #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarinUkraine
The EU has begun to consider exchanging land in peace negotiations for security guarantees. There is a growing belief in Brussels that the war with Russia can end only through talks between Kyiv and Moscow that will involve territorial concessions. With the changing battlefield situation and... #FrozenConflict #NATO #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #SecurityGuarantees #TerritorialConcessions #WarinUkraine
The barrel of the gun will be European: new details of Trump’s plan to end Russia’s war against Ukraine. US President-elect Donald Trump may call on European and British troops to secure an 800-mile (1,200-kilometer) buffer zone between the Russian and Ukrainian armies as part of a plan to freeze the war... #DonaldTrump #FrozenConflict #NATO #WarinUkraine
WSJ: Trump advisers discuss freezing the war in Ukraine and a 20-year ban on Ukraine joining NATO. Newly elected US President Donald Trump may offer Ukraine an option to freeze the military conflict with Russia without the return of its occupied territories in return for delaying NATO membership fo... #DonaldTrump #FrozenConflict #NATO #NatoMembership #WarinUkraine
Rutte: NATO should work on changing the war’s trajectory and increasing the price of aggression for Russia. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stressed the urgent need to step up action to change the trajectory of Russia’s war against Ukraine, citing the recent deployment of North Korean troops in Russ... #MarkRutte #MilitaryAid #NATO #NorthKorea #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Rutte calls assistance to Ukraine one of the components of NATO’s security; Scholz once again emphasizes the immutability of his decision. Strengthening the national defense of allied countries and further increasing military aid to Ukraine are two areas that are crucial for NATO’s security, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said i... #AnnalenaBaerbock #MarkRutte #NATO #NorthKoreanSoldiers #OlafScholz #WarinUkraine
The West is warning against repeating the mistakes of the Munich Agreement amid anxiety over the US election. More than a hundred current and former high-ranking officials from Western countries have called on Europe to be prepared for either outcome of the US presidential election and prevent an agreement wi... #MunichAgreement #NATO #SupportUkraine #USelections #WarinUkraine
Issues related to the interception of missiles over Ukraine may be discussed next week at the NATO ministerial meeting, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, said. “This discussion is about where the right to self-defense begins and where it ends. Do we have the right to shoot ... #AirDefenseSystems #KrzysztofGawkowski #NATO #Poland #RadosławSikorski #RussianMissiles #WarinUkraine
After criticizing slow aid deliveries, Zelenskyy has noted positive developments in supplies from partners for the front; most Ukrainians believe in a fair end to the war. President Zelenskyy said there are currently essential developments in military supplies from Ukraine’s partners. According to him, an increase in supplies is currently recorded through support packag... #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATO #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine #Zelenskyy
Congress calls on Biden to allow Poland to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine. The bipartisan leaders of the US Helsinki Commission are calling on President Biden to allow Poland to expand its air defenses in the skies over Ukraine, helping shoot down Russian missiles in self-de... #AirDefenseSystems #JoeBiden #NATO #Poland #RussianMissiles #WarinUkraine
Without a strong response from the West to North Korean troops in Ukraine, the history of Crimea will repeat itself – Putin will move further. Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his disappointment with the the lack of a significant global reaction to the news of North Korean troops being transferred to Russia. “The voices of the US, NATO, W... #Crimea #NATO #NorthKorea #NorthKoreanSoldiers #RussianAggression #SerhiyKyslytsia #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Sweden will allocate a €63M military aid package to Ukraine, including defense industry investment. As part of previous military aid packages to Ukraine, the Swedish government will provide our country with €63M in financial support, or approximately SEK 720M. €20M will go to supporting Ukraine̵... #DronesCoalition #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATO #Ramstein #Sweden
Trump may propose a new Minsk Agreement to end the war in Ukraine. US presidential candidate Donald Trump and his potential vice president, JD Vance, have repeatedly spoken about their desire to end the war in Ukraine. In September, Vance floated the idea of a froz... #DonaldTrump #MinskAgreements #NATO #Putin #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarinUkraine
Russia has paid North Korea around $5.5B for weapons and is deploying North Korean troops in Kursk; China is alarmed by this cooperation. Since February 2022, the Russian Federation has purchased up to $5.5B worth of North Korean weapons, analysts have discovered. Russia is trying to use cooperation with North Korea as a lever of influe... #China #GeopoliticalFragmentation #MarkRutte #NATO #NorthKoreanSoldiers #WarEscalation #WarinUkraine
Scholz rules out a country at war joining NATO and speaks of peace. The German chancellor does not see a possibility for inviting Ukraine to NATO right now – in his opinion, a country in a state of war “unequivocally cannot become a member” of the Alliance... #NATO #NATOexpansion #OlafScholz #PeaceInUkraine #SecurityGuarantees #TaurusMissile #WarinUkraine
The Victory Plan will be expanded: Internal steps will be presented to Ukrainians by the end of the year. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is working on expanding the Victory Plan, the first part of which concerns the assistance of Western partners and on Ukraine joining NATO. The next part ... #NATO #VictoryPlan #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Lithuania declares the West’s unprecedented war fatigue and offers to resume discussions about Western troops in Ukraine. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Gabrielius Landsbergis, said that in the West fatigue from the Russian war against Ukraine has reached unprecedented heights, and the “Victory Plan&... #GabrieliusLandsbergis #NATO #NATOUkraine #VictoryPlan #WarinUkraine #WesternTroops
Biden and European leaders discuss aid to Ukraine: There is no consensus on long-range weapons, and NATO does not want to participate in the war. On October 18, US President Joe Biden met with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Berlin. The leaders promised to “contin... #EmmanuelMacron #JoeBiden #KeirStarmer #LongRangeStrikes #NATO #OlafScholz #WarinUkraine
Orban does not support the Ukrainian Victory Plan, and Fico says it is contradictory. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said he does not support Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Victory Plan because “it is not a victory plan for Hungary.” “We have not participated in w... #EuropeanIntegration #NATO #RobertFico #VictorOrban #VictoryPlan #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Zelenskyy presents the Victory Plan for Ukraine to the Ukrainian Parliament. The Victory Plan consists of five points and three secret annexes that have been provided to Ukraine’s partners. The five points are: The first point is geopolitical, and presupposes UkraineR... #NATO #SecurityGuarantees #VictoryPlan #WarinUkraine #WeaponsProduction #Zelenskyy
NATO will review key priorities for its assistance to Ukraine. Patrick Turner, NATO’s senior representative in Ukraine, said that despite the indefinite postponement of Ramstein meeting, the heads of the Alliance’s defense ministries will meet this we... #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATO #PatrickTurner #Ramstein #RustemUmerov #UkraineNATOCouncil
The German opposition supports the transfer of Taurus missiles to Ukraine and expects Russia to attack NATO by 2030. The Leader of the Opposition and a candidate for Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, expressed his readiness to support the provision of long-range Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. “If the ... #FriedrichMerz #Germany #LongRangeMissiles #NATO #RussianAggression #TaurusMissile #WarinUkraine
The US increases its share of European defense startup venture capital by 200%, but Poland takes the lead in European security. Against the backdrop of surging global conflict, US investors provided more than 65% of venture capital investment in European defense technology in 2024, compared to 18% last year. According to Dealr... #DefenseInvestments #DefenseTechnology #EdwardLucas #EUdefense #NATO #Poland
The EU is spending insufficiently on its defense as a whole, but Poland will allocate a record amount to this sector next year. The European Court of Auditors claims that the €1.5B budget planned by the EU for the development of the defense industry, as well as two years of other spending, is insufficient in the face of the ch... #DefenseSpending #EUdefense #NATO #Poland #WarinUkraine
The new NATO Secretary, General Rutte, will maintain Stoltenberg’s priorities during his tenure. Incoming NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will need all of the coalition-building skills he honed as prime minister of the Netherlands to keep the Western alliance together amid the war in Ukraine, f... #JensStoltenberg #MarkRutte #NATO #UkraineNATO
Europe will increase its defense investment sharply in 2024 in response to Russian aggression. European venture capitalists plan to invest $1B in defense technology by the end of 2024, which is 400% more than in 2018, as a result of Russian aggression in Ukraine. According to Dealroom, venture ... #DefenseIndustry #DefenseInvestments #DefenseTechnology #EUdefense #NATO
The US and Britain might allow Ukraine to strike Russia using Storm Shadow missiles without any public announcement. Washington and London are believed to be working toward permitting Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles for strikes on Russian territory, but any such announcement will not be made public to preserve ... #LongRangeMissiles #LongRangeStrikes #NATO #RussianMilitaryTargets #StormShadow #WarinUkraine
Putin warns that permitting Ukraine to carry out long-range attacks on Russian territory with Western weapons would mean war with NATO. How are the US, the EU, and Britain reacting? Allowing Ukraine to strike with long-range Western weapons on the Russian territory will mean that the US and NATO countries are directly participating in the war with the Russian Federation, said Rus... #KeirStarmer #LongRangeStrikes #NATO #Putin #WarinUkraine #WesternWeapons
The US will provide Ukraine with a non-military aid package worth more than $700M and promises an “irreversible path” to NATO. The United States is providing Ukraine with $325M to repair its electricity networks, and $290M in humanitarian aid for citizens suffering from Russian aggression, and $102M for demining, US Secretary... #AnthonyBlinken #HumanitarianAid #NATO #NATOUkraine #SupportUkraine #USaidforUkraine
The White House is working with Congress to save $6B in aid for Ukraine, and NATO will provide €40B in 2025. The administration of the US president is conducting urgent negotiations with Congress to obtain permission to use $6B earmarked for Ukrainian military aid by the September 30 deadline, Reuters notes.... #NATO #PDA #Pentagon #UScongress #USmilitaryAid #WarinUkraine #WhiteHouse
How is Brussels preparing for the possibility of a Trump victory in the US presidential elections? The European Commission has formed a dedicated group of officials to develop a strategy to respond to the consequences of the US presidential election, writes the FT. The EC is preparing for Donald Tr... #DonaldTrump #EuropeanCommission #KamalaHarris #NATO #USelections #WarinUkraine
The US will allocate a new $1.7B military aid package to Ukraine. Washington will send $1.7B in military aid to Ukraine, including munitions for air defense systems, artillery, mortars, as well as anti-tank and anti-ship missiles. The package includes $1.5B in fundi... #HIMARSartillery #HimarsForUkraine #NASAMS #NATO #Pentagon #USAI #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
