Overview
- Representatives of the 32 NATO members have agreed a draft to provide a minimum of €70 billion a year for two years for Ukraine, a package that allies aim to finalise at the Ankara summit on July 7–8.
- The pledge counts an EU package toward the total and would leave roughly €80 billion to be met from national budgets, with Germany expected to take a leading share given recent large increases in its defence spending.
- U.S. pressure has intensified: President Donald Trump publicly criticised allied contributions on Truth Social and U.S. officials urged immediate progress toward NATO’s higher spending goal to shift more defence burden to Europe.
- Washington has signalled a rebalancing of forces toward the Indo‑Pacific and cancelled some planned European deployments, a move that European leaders say increases the urgency to boost regional deterrence and ramp up weapons production.
- NATO chief Mark Rutte and German leaders called on defence industry to accelerate deliveries, and Baltic states pressed for stronger permanent deterrence on the eastern flank as leaders prepare to formalise commitments in Ankara.