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.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has stated that Ukraine will join the Alliance as its 33rd or 34th member in the future. Source: Rutte, upon arriving at the NATO defence ministers' meeting in Brussels on 17 October,

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 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,

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,

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,

Another meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council will take place on Thursday, October 17. It will be held at the level of defense ministers, announces NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. According to Rutte,