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German Prime Minister Friedrich Merz warned that the Russian president understands only the language of power and aims to guarantee the peace of Europe in the future.
A few hours before the start of the summit, Merz said that Vladimir Putin decided that Ukraine should be part of Russia, and Berlin would pay a “fair stake” to defend Europe.
US President Donald Trump has been heading to Hagg for his first NATO summit since 2019, and all 32 leaders will spend more than 1.5%of the national production and 1.5%of related infrastructure.
Mark Rutte, Secretary-General of NATO, said he was worried about the US promise to the Western alliance before the summit was darkened by the Israeli-Iranian dispute and focused on investing in defense and support for Ukrainian support.
He predicted that the US president and senior leadership had a “complete promise” for NATO, which would coincide with US military spending.
Rutte said Europe and Canada have already promised more than $ 350 billion (£ 26 billion) with military support for Ukraine this year.
Tuesday that 10 people died of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, and the German Prime Minister said that all attempts to bring Russia to the negotiation table have failed.
According to the local Serhiy Lysak, the Dongbu City DNIPRO and the missile attacks in the nearby villages killed 11 people and injured 150 people. Many children were injured by a DNIPRO attack that damaged kindergarten and passenger trains.
The initial missile strikes for SUMY in northeastern parties killed three people, including children.
Ukraine’s VolodyMyr Zelensky arrived in the Hague, which must meet Donald Trump in the NATO summit. It will be the first meeting after they met at the Pope Francis Funeral in April.

NATO member states are expected to approve major new investment plans to increase defense investment benchmarks to 5%of GDP.
Many allies are much lower than the promise of spending 3.5%of GDP to the defense by 2035, but the German government has sponsored the budget trading on Tuesday and achieved its goal by 2029.
In 2025, about 62 billion euros (£ 53 billion) will rise to € 158 billion in 2029, partially financing with debt and special funds.
“We do not give favor to the United States and the president. Russia is doing it in our own views and beliefs. Russia is actively in danger of the security and freedom of the Atlantic region.”
During the summit, MERZ will meet Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Mark Rutte spent nine months since the allies became Secretary -General NATO to achieve a 5% goal. This figure was first set by President Trump in January, and the current 2% guidelines of NATO members were 2% or more, and they seemed unrealistic and unrealistic for most people.
The two -day NATO summit will be reduced by scale, and there will be less than three hours of work sessions on Wednesday evening after dinner hosted by the Dutch king, and can accommodate Trump in five minutes.
The phrase of promise in the statement is the key.
While 3.5%of the target expenditure covers the key defense requirements, 1.5%will be spent on “defense -related”.
To reach a 3.5%core defense expenditure goal, it still requires significant adjustments to most NATO countries. Of the 32 allies, 27 spent less than 3%, and eight people do eight hovering, which is much lower than the 2% threshold set by the 2014 allies.
On Monday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised that the UK would achieve 5% goals by 2035.
He said the UK said, “With a clear sense of agility, speed and national interests, the British government has spent 2.6%of GDP on core defense in two years and expects 1.5%in defense -related fields.

There is a Spanish on the bottom of Lang, and his defense expenditure is less than 1.3%.
Madrid will have to doubles more than double the funds to meet Rutte’s new goals. Pedro Sanchez’s socialist prime minister has been resisting for a long time and insisted that “not only unreasonable but also opposition.”
Also, when the government of Sanchez occupies the clock, it will not be popular at home at home.
Sanchez said on Sunday that Spain has reached a contract that can be exempt from the goal. “NATO is convinced that Spain should consume 3.5%to get there,” he said on Monday.
Belgium and Slovakia were enough to express their interest in exemption just by the proposal of Sánchez for low expenditures.
Belgium, Foreign Minister Maxile, said, “You can be sure that diplomats are working hard to get flexible mechanisms for several weeks, and Brussels’ expenditures are currently 1.3%and Slovakia also has the right to decide to achieve a new goal.
Despite their opinions, all 32 states are expected to join a new vow.
When NATO leaders and more than 12 partner government leaders headed to Hagg, the train travel was severely confusing at a skipole airport near Amsterdam after the cable was damaged by fire.
Secretary of Secretary David Van WEEL said he could not rule out the interference. “It can be an activist group and can be another country. Anything can be done.” “The most important thing now is to repair the cable and move the traffic again.”