Top NATO Brass to Meet Virtually to Discuss Ukraine

NATO’s top brass from the Alliance’s 32 member countries will hold a video meeting on Wednesday to discuss developments concerning Ukraine, the head of the alliance’s military committee said.

The head of NATO’s military committee, Italian Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, announced on Tuesday that the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, General Alexus Grynkewich (USAF), would give the officers an update “on the current security environment” as “diplomatic efforts to secure peace in Ukraine progress”.

After holding a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelesnky on Monday along with leaders from the UK, Germany, France, Italy, the EU and NATO, US President Donald Trump announced that, as part of any peace deal with Russia, Ukraine should abandon all hopes of entering the Alliance.

Rather, as agreed to by Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, he said, individual NATO members including the US were welcome to develop bilateral security agreements in order to enforce any inked cease to hostilities.

In an interview with right-leaning cable outlet Fox News on Monday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who was present at that day’s summit, said there was no agreement on deploying European troops to Ukraine, nor was Washington’s role in the process clearly defined.

“Over the last couple of months under the leadership of Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister, and Emmanuel Macron, the French President, a group of now 30 countries, including Japan and Australia, are working on this concept of security guarantees,” Rutte said.

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Starmer told the 30-member so-called “Coalition of the Willing” that they would meet with US officials in the coming days to discuss those security guarantees and “prepare for the deployment of a reassurance force if the hostilities ended,” a Downing Street spokesperson said.

The UK’s Chief of the Defense Staff, Admiral Tony Radakin, the professional head of the British Armed Forces, traveled to Washington on Tuesday to begin such talks.

“The leaders also discussed how further pressure – including through sanctions – could be placed on Putin until he showed he was ready to take serious action to end his illegal invasion,” Starmer continued.

French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking to reporters before leaving Washington on Monday, also called for additional sanctions if Putin does not show a willingness for peace.