Two percent is a start, as President Trump has said, but it’s not enough, nor is 3%, nor is 4% — more like 5%,” the defense secretary said in a speech in Brussels.

A senior U.S. official on Thursday said the United States had not ruled out potential NATO membership for Ukraine or a negotiated return to its pre-2014 borders, contradicting comments made this week by the U.

Leaders had never promised to Ukraine that it would become a NATO member if it forged a peace deal with Russia, the chief of the Western military alliance, Mark Rutte, told reporters on Thursday. FRANCE 24's international affairs commentator,

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Thursday said any peace deal to end the fighting in Ukraine must be enduring and that Kyiv should be closely involved in the negotiations with Russia, as America’s allies adjusted to the stunning news that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had held a long one-on-one talk this week about a possible ceasefire deal.