Responding to the question of the withdrawal of US intelligence support for Ukraine, NATO chief Mark Rutte said that "it is crucial for Ukraine to be in a position of force in peace negotiations and support to continue". “The U.S. and Ukraine are discussing this right now. I am cautiously optimistic that they will be successful,” he stressed.
The North Atlantic Alliance's secretary-general said "there are those who have doubts about NATO's future." “Transatlantic relations stay crucial to our alliance. president Donald Trump stressed that he and the United States stay committed to the Alliance. But he besides said that Europe must do more,” he said.
Andrzej Duda applied. He pointed out NATO's key task
President Andrzej Duda admitted that He submitted to Mark Rutte a written request that the June NATO summit in The Hague should address the issue of increased defence spending of the Alliance states and to decide that countries should spend at least 3% of their GDP on arms.
— You don't gotta explain it to anyone, we've talked about it dozens of times. It turned out that Europe was unprepared for a war threat at all," said the president of Poland. “When Ukraine had to be rapidly handed over arms, it turned out that we had nothing to say that all the ammunition available to the European part of NATO was adequate virtually for a fewer days of war,” he added.
Andrzej Duda stated that the main task was to reconstruct Europe's military possible and rebuild the arms industry. “Sustainable peace for us is 1 that will make Russia no longer attack. I encourage you to arrange the conditions so that the reconstruction of Ukraine is possible, maintaining peace is possible. We request transatlantic cooperation for this. We hope that the deadlock in relations between US and Ukrainian leaders will be broken. I have repeatedly encouraged Volodymyr Zelenski to reconstruct these relations. We believe that an agreement must be sought, but it is essential that NATO is absolutely credible," he stressed.
