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EU foreign and defence ministers meet in Brussels, agreeing on a two-billion-euro plan to raid their own arsenals and jointly purchase desperately needed artillery shells for Ukraine. IMAGES
NATO defence ministers meet in Brussels over the war in Ukraine. NATO allies have refused to back a Polish call for the alliance to send an armed peace mission to Ukraine, but have vowed to keep supplying arms despite threats from Moscow. 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
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin meet during a summit of NATO defence ministers in Brussels. NATO members have supplied weaponry worth billions of dollars to help fight Russia's more than seven-month invasion of Ukraine and have vowed to keep supplies flowing as Kyiv pushes to recapture occupied territories. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITE
NATO defence ministers meet in Brussels to discuss Washington's concerns over the European Union's new plans to deepen defence ties between its members, and increasingly strained US-Turkey relations. IMAGES of the family photo
NATO foreign ministers meet in Brussels the day after Finland officially joined the Atlantic Alliance, becoming its 31st member, in a historic realignment of Europe's defences spurred by Russia's war on Ukraine. IMAGES
Foreign and defence ministers from the European Union meet in Luxembourg to discuss Ukraine and the Middle East. Ukraine has been pleading with its EU backers to ramp up supplies of air defences desperately needed to repel Russian attacks. 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
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