Russia’s invasion has dominated previous meetings, but keeping President Trump happy was the focus at the gathering this week. Ukraine was largely shunted to the sidelines.

NATO leaders are set to hold a shortened summit in the Netherlands from June 24–25, with Ukraine playing a far smaller role than previously expected,

In the final communiqué of the last NATO summit - unlike last year's - Ukraine was mentioned only once. But instead of a lot of buzzwords, the alliance gave the green light to many joint Ukrainian-European defense projects, writes err.ee.