{"id":1406277,"date":"2026-06-17T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-weapons-and-ramstein-what-nato-ministers-will-discuss-on-june-18\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:43:09","slug":"ukraine-weapons-and-ramstein-what-nato-ministers-will-discuss-on-june-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-weapons-and-ramstein-what-nato-ministers-will-discuss-on-june-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine, weapons and Ramstein: what NATO ministers will discuss on June 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Thursday, June 18, NATO&#8217;s defense ministers will meet at NATO Headquarters in Brussels. The meeting will be a key step in the preparations for the upcoming NATO Leaders&#8217; Summit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/en\/news-and-events\/events\/event-programmes\/2026\/06\/meeting-of-nato-ministers-of-defence#tabs-ced645e4f2-item-00dda0c241-tab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported<\/a> on the Alliance website.<\/p>\n<p> The meeting will be chaired by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. The defense ministers will meet in the Nuclear Planning Group format and will also participate in a meeting of the North Atlantic Council.<\/p>\n<p> During the talks, the Allies will discuss defense and security issues, as well as next steps ahead of the meeting of NATO heads of state and government.<\/p>\n<p> Before the meeting, representatives of the Alliance countries will speak to journalists. After the talks, Mark Rutte will hold a press conference.<\/p>\n<p> This meeting will be the final preparatory stage before the NATO summit, which will be held on July 7-8 in Ankara.<\/p>\n<p> In addition to the meeting of defense ministers, a meeting of the Contact Group on Defense Issues in Ukraine in the &#8220;Ramstein&#8221; format will also be held at the Alliance headquarters on June 18.<\/p>\n<p> At it, the allies will discuss further military support for Ukraine and the needs of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zbroia-ppo-ta-sanktsii-proty-rf-g7-vystupyla-iz-zaiavoiu-shchodo-ukrainy\/\">the leaders of the G7 countries confirmed their intention to strengthen military and economic support for Ukraine<\/a> . Among the priorities: increasing supplies of air defense systems, long-range weapons, and assistance in the development of Ukrainian defense production.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, June 18, NATO&#8217;s defense ministers will meet at NATO Headquarters in Brussels. The meeting will be a key step in the preparations for the upcoming NATO Leaders&#8217; Summit. This is reported on the Alliance website. The meeting will be chaired by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. The defense ministers will meet in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1406262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1406277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1406262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}