NATO is preparing a shortened declaration for the June summit without mentioning Ukraine

The NATO summit, which will be held on June 24-25, is being organized in such a way as to win the approval of US President Donald Trump and avoid large-scale conflicts.

NATO representatives plan to limit the final version of the document to only three or four paragraphs, while the declaration of the 2024 Washington Summit consisted of 40 paragraphs, and the communiqué of the previous year’s summit in Vilnius stretched to as many as 90.

This year’s text may not mention Russia at all – and perhaps even Ukraine – making the meeting in The Hague very different from previous summits. In Washington and Vilnius, the agenda focused almost entirely on Ukraine, with debates over whether to extend an invitation to join the Alliance and how to chart its path to membership.

At the moment, given that Trump has ruled out Ukraine’s membership in NATO in the near future, diplomats are suggesting that it would be better not to mention Ukraine at all in the final declaration. Any attempt to negotiate the wording could result in an even weaker statement than the one adopted in Washington last year. It also raises the question of whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be invited to the Netherlands after being the main guest at previous summits.

However, Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans confirmed that Zelenskyy would be invited to the summit. Trump will also attend, but it is unclear whether the leaders of Ukraine and the United States will meet..