Ukraine will be a member of NATO in the future, Secretary-General of NATO Mark Rutte said Thursday in Brussels, where he is chairing a meeting of NATO ministers of defense.

Ukraine will eventually join NATO, most likely becoming the next country to be admitted into the alliance, which currently has 32 members, according to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. "Ukraine will be a member of NATO in the future,

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced that the next meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council is scheduled for Oct. 17. The meeting will bring together defense ministers from NATO member states alongside Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has outlined the topics that will be on the agenda for his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Brussels. Source: Rutte, upon arriving at the NATO defence ministers' meeting in Brussels on 17 October,

NATO member states will produce more weapons and ammunition. The alliance is close to reaching its €40 billion spending target for Ukraine this year, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says. The new secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has called for a focus on increasing defense production,

According to the President's Office, Zelenskyy will also present Ukraine's strategic war plan to EU partners at the European Council. On Oct. 16, the president outlined the plan to the Ukrainian parliament,