High-level meetings in Brussels aim to secure new military aid and deepen EU cooperation, with talks scheduled across NATO, Belgium and the European Council.<\/p>\n
The President of Ukraine has arrived in Brussels, where meetings are planned with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and the Prime Minister of Belgium Bart De Wever, as well as an audience with King Philippe.<\/p>\n
He announced Zelensky\u2019s trip on his Telegram channel.<\/p>\n
\u201cArrived in Brussels. Today he is scheduled to meet NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, tomorrow \u2013 with the Prime Minister of Belgium Bart De Wever. An audience with King Philippe is also planned.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Volodymyr Zelensky<\/p>\n
Strengthening Defense and European Integration<\/p>\n
According to the president, these days are critical for strengthening the country\u2019s defense capabilities: meetings with the United Kingdom\u2019s and Germany\u2019s defense ministers are expected, as well as discussions in the Ramstein format and the work of the European Council.<\/p>\n
\u201cEurope must be strong and united. It is largely up to this how this war will end\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Volodymyr Zelensky<\/p>\n
Following the planned meetings, further steps are expected to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s defense and intensify cooperation with allies in the European and transatlantic directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High-level meetings in Brussels aim to secure new military aid and deepen EU cooperation, with talks scheduled across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4140,7798,144,13581,13582,13583,13580],"class_list":["post-21999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-brussels","tag-european-council","tag-military-aid","tag-news","tag-ramstein","tag-ukrainian-defence","tag-zelensky-brussels","tag-zelensky-brussels-ukrainian-defence-ramstein-european-council-military-aid"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116767335804947519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}