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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other leaders arrive ahead of a meeting during the alliance’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington, DC. IMAGES
The defence of Europe without Ukraine would be a "futile task", Kyiv's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tells the press as he arrives for a meeting of his North Atlantic Treaty Organization counterparts in Brussels. Speaking after greeting the US-led defence alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Kuleba adds that he believes the Ukrainian armed forces to now be currently "the strongest and the most battle-hardened army in Europe" as its war against Russia's invading forces drags on towards a third year. Kuleba and his NATO counterparts on Wednesday are set to agree on a plan for reforms aimed at helping Ukraine towards eventual membership in the alliance. IMAGES
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrives for meetings with defence chiefs of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta, Indonesia. IMAGES
Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov arrives at a meeting of NATO defence minsters, following a rash of deadly Russian aerial attacks which has led to a call from President Volodymyr Zelensky for an air shield. IMAGES
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary general, shakes hands with Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of Defense, on the second day of the meeting of NATO member state Ministers of Defence. SOUNDBITE
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