Trump has pushed NATO members to spend at least 5 percent of their GDP on national defense. At a NATO summit in The Hague in June, most members agreed to a spending target of 5 percent of GDP — 3.5 percent on core military expenditure and 1.5 percent in defense-related areas such as military mobility by 2035.

NATO boss Mark Rutte has admitted President Donald Trump is the only Western leader who can push Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine war.

President Donald Trump hosted NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House on Friday, where Rutte called for greater efforts to defend Ukraine against Russian attacks.

President Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House on Wednesday, shortly after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced new sanctions on Russia’s biggest oil exporters. The move marked the Trump administration’s most significant action yet in its efforts to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to his war

These are the updates for Wednesday, October 22, 2025, as Trump addresses a new US military strike in the Pacific Ocean.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday praised President Trump’s act of not providing Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles in its war with Russia. Speaking with CNN hours after meeting

Russia appears to have been deterred by NATO's firm response last month to incursions into Polish and Estonian airspace, but Moscow is expected to continue testing boundaries, the U.S. general serving as NATO's top commander said on Tuesday.

A large-scale attack against one or more of the Baltic states or Poland raises the chance that NATO will invoke Article 5 to extremely high, a risk Russia would not be likely to take, Masala said.

Putin oversees nuclear drills testing Russia’s missile and bomber readiness as NATO begins its Steadfast Noon nuclear exercises in Europe