Meeting between the NATO Secretary General, the European Union and Ukraine 🇺🇦, 24 JUN 2025

Remarks by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and the President of the European Council, António Costa, at the NATO Summit in The Hague, 🇳🇱, 24 June 2025.

🗣 | NATO Secretary General:

So, good afternoon. And it is so good to have this opportunity, Volodymyr, to sit down with the EU leadership and NATO to discuss with you again. What you're seeing at this moment is that European and Canadian partners, they are now basically ramping up the support of Ukraine.Already over 35 billion euros pledged this year. That's even before we reach half year on the first of July, and last year it was for the full year a little bit over 50 billion. So we can safely assume that the total amount for 2025 will be higher than in 2024 and this shows you that the support for Ukraine is ongoing.

Tomorrow, we will have a Summit with NATO leaders. And I can also safely predict that the support for Ukraine going forward, closely linked to the defence spending of NATO countries, will be there. And will also make sure that, of course, we hope the war will end soon, if it takes more time that you have the support in terms of military capabilities, but also when the peace comes, or a long term ceasefire, that you are so strong that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin will never, ever again, try to capture one square mile/kilometre of Ukraine. And what we will, today is coordinate closely between the EU and NATO to make sure that when it comes to all the practical support, we do the max. So again, thank you for being here and to the colleagues from the European Commission, European Council, really an honour to host you all here in this building. Thank you.

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