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Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, and Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's Secretary General, meet in Brussels at the NATO foreign ministers meeting. As Finland joins the military alliance, Ukraine is also pushing for eventual NATO membership, but Western diplomats say that remains a still distant prospect. IMAGES
NATO foreign ministers meet for the NATO-Ukraine Council foreign ministers' session. One of the issues on the agenda is military aid to Kyiv. It comes on the 75th anniversary of the alliance, menaced by an aggressive Russia and the spectre of Donald Trump's return to power. IMAGES
The NATO flag flies in front of Finland's foreign ministry in Helsinki, as the country becomes becomes the 31st member of the US-led alliance. Last year, the Kremlin's all-out invasion of Ukraine upended Europe's security landscape and prompted Finland to drop decades of non-alignment. IMAGES
NATO's foreign ministers pose for a group photo at the end of the first day of talks at the US-led defence alliance's headquarters in Brussels debating the creation of a 100-billion-euro, five-year fund for Ukraine. The proposed fund is intended to help arm Kyiv in its fight with Russia. IMAGES
A meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization kicks off in Brussels, with the US-led defence alliance's foreign ministers set to discuss NATO's ongoing backing for Ukraine against Russia amid doubts over US support and a bloody stalemate on the ground. There are fears that a lack of adequate support from the West -- at a time that it is distracted by the Israel-Hamas war -- could end up forcing Kyiv to seek a compromise with Russian President Vladimir Putin from a position of weakness. IMAGES
Foreign Ministers of NATO countries pose for a group photo in Brussels as they hold a meeting the day after Finland officially joined the military alliance. IMAGES
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