NATO Leaders to Affirm Ironclad Commitment at Ankara Summit
NATO leaders including President Trump will affirm an “ironclad commitment” to collective defence under Article 5 at next week’s summit in Ankara, according to the draft summit text. President Zelensky, who also attends, arrives pressing for faster air-defence deliveries and licences to build Patriot interceptors in Ukraine after the week’s attacks on Kyiv killed at least 30 people. European allies are expected to set out fresh military aid commitments for Ukraine.
The summit convenes Tuesday and Wednesday with the alliance’s two live anxieties on one table: whether American security guarantees hold under a president openly sceptical of them, and whether Europe can arm Ukraine at the pace Russia’s escalating air war demands. The “ironclad” language in the draft text is aimed at the first; the air-defence file tests the second, with Kyiv arguing that roughly a third of what Russia now fires is ballistic and only Patriot systems intercept it reliably. Watch the aid numbers that emerge, and whether the Patriot-licence request advances beyond warm words.