NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said he expects allies to confirm in the final declaration of the NATO summit in Ankara that Russia poses a long-term threat to the Alliance's territory.
8 July 2026, 08:29 —
Sergiy Sydorenko, from Ankara — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, speaking ahead of the Alliance summit, stated that Russia's "indiscriminate" missile attack on Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast was planned specifically to harm civilians.
6 July 2026, 17:16 —
Sergiy Sydorenko, from Ankara — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said that the key task of the Alliance's summit in Ankara will be to confirm the fulfilment of allies' defence commitments, as this, in his words, is the main factor in deterring Russia.
26 June 2026, 09:55 —
Ivanna Kostina — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has revealed the topics he discussed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when the latter arrived in Brussels.
18 June 2026, 08:49 —
Ulyana Krychkovska — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has announced that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will attend the upcoming meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also known as the Ramstein format).
18 June 2026, 08:36 —
Ulyana Krychkovska — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said there will be no separate NATO-Ukraine Council meeting during the summit in Türkiye.
17 June 2026, 14:15 —
Ulyana Krychkovska, from Brussels — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said he does not believe Ukraine should hold back from striking targets inside Russia for the sake of potential "peace talks" and stressed that it was Moscow that started the war.
17 June 2026, 13:47 —
Ulyana Krychkovska, from Brussels — News
A meeting of Ukrainian representatives and the North Atlantic Alliance in the format of the NATO-Ukraine Council took place in Kyiv on 3 June, marking the first time such a meeting was held in Ukraine.
3 June 2026, 18:18 —
Sergiy Sydorenko — News
NATO sees no problem with Ukraine striking St Petersburg on the day the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin's key international event, opens there.
3 June 2026, 17:56 —
Sergiy Sydorenko — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in Kyiv that neither side is abandoning the need for Ukraine's accession to the Alliance.
3 June 2026, 17:15 —
Sergiy Sydorenko — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, during a visit to Ukraine, has spoken about rising Russian losses in the war and made a public address to Russian youth.
3 June 2026, 17:00 —
Sergiy Sydorenko — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has arrived in Ukraine on a visit on the morning of 3 June.
3 June 2026, 10:56 —
Iryna Kutielieva — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said he heard "a lot of encouraging comments" from allies on support for Ukraine during a ministerial meeting of Alliance countries.
22 May 2026, 15:56 —
Olha Kovalchuk — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said he has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to join the Alliance leaders' summit in the city of Ankara, Türkiye, in July.
22 May 2026, 15:41 —
Olha Kovalchuk — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte wants European countries to more evenly distribute the costs of US weapons purchases for Ukraine under the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) mechanism, as currently only six or seven allies are making the main contribution.
22 May 2026, 10:27 —
Tetyana Vysotska — News
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has held a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the sidelines of the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in the Swedish city of Helsingborg.
21 May 2026, 19:48 —
Olha Kovalchuk — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has warned that Russia will encounter devastating repercussions if it uses nuclear weapons against Ukraine during its ongoing joint nuclear-capability exercises with Belarus.
20 May 2026, 14:25 —
Ulyana Krychkovska — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said Ukraine will continue to receive US weapons paid for by its partners despite the impact of the war in the Middle East.
16 April 2026, 10:37 —
Maria Yemets — News
15 April 2026, 17:07 —
Tetyana Vysotska, from Brussels — News
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held talks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte regarding the PURL programme in the context of defending Ukraine's airspace.
14 April 2026, 12:17 —
Ulyana Krychkovska — News
US weapons supplied to Ukraine under NATO's Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) programme, including air defence systems and interceptor missiles, will continue to be delivered despite the needs of the war in the Middle East.
26 March 2026, 14:48 —
Tetyana Vysotska, from Ukraine — News
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte have discussed the involvement of additional countries in an initiative to purchase US weapons for Ukraine and an increase in current contributions.
18 March 2026, 07:46 —
Khrystyna Bondarieva — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said there is broad support across the alliance for US President Donald Trump's campaign targeting Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities.
5 March 2026, 09:43 —
Ulyana Krychkovska — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is confident that funding for US-made weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) programme will be provided as planned.
12 February 2026, 16:25 —
Sergiy Sydorenko, from Brussels — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said that he is convinced the US leadership knows in detail about Russian attacks on Ukraine, including strikes on civilian facilities.
11 February 2026, 16:55 —
Sergiy Sydorenko — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has visited Chernihiv Oblast during his two-day trip to Ukraine, including the village of Yahidne, where Russian forces held more than 300 civilians captive.
5 February 2026, 11:04 —
Olha Kovalchuk — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has confirmed that the West is considering three layers of security guarantees for Ukraine.
3 February 2026, 16:16 —
Sergiy Sydorenko — News
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has publicly called on Ukraine's partner countries to supply air defence missiles from existing stockpiles. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte assured him that work on this is already underway.
3 February 2026, 15:25 —
Sergiy Sydorenko — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is confident that Ukraine's allies will find the money needed to purchase US-made weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
3 February 2026, 15:00 —
Sergiy Sydorenko — News
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said in his speech to the Verkhovna Rada on 3 February that Russia's overnight combined attack on Ukraine once again confirms that Moscow is not genuinely committed to real peace negotiations.
3 February 2026, 12:11 —
Maria Yemets — News