Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also dismissed deploying U.S. troops to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping force.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will become on Wednesday the first member of the new Trump administration to visit NATO.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said NATO membership for Ukraine was unrealistic and in sweeping remarks suggested that ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said he does not believe Ukraine joining NATO is “realistic,” as the Trump administration looks to broker an end to Russia’s war in the country. Speaking ...

NATO members had also agreed to a new cost-sharing ... the NATO countries to open their coffers for defence. In 2024, all NATO countries spent $1185 billion (estimated). Out of this, the US ...

Hegseth held talks with U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey before meeting with Ukraine Defense Contract Group (UDCG) at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

Estonia's spending boost "all comes from the real needs," Tsahkna ... referring to his country and its neighbors. He said many NATO members' spending is not presently rooted in "reality." ...

“But that was only taking place in Tallinn,” he told CNN. “The energy grid is all across Estonia.” NATO has now set up a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, after the ...

“There’s absolutely no question that any effort by Donald Trump to somehow take over the land of another sovereign country is illegal in international law,” he told the National Post. “The effort to ...

As the new US defense secretary comes to Brussels on his first NATO visit, European allies will express willingness to boost ...