Russia’s invasion has dominated previous meetings, but keeping President Trump happy was the focus at the gathering this week. Ukraine was largely shunted to the sidelines.

By Ben Aris in Berlin The collected membership of Nato meets in The Hague on June 25 for a cutdown version of the annual gathering, where Ukraine has been dropped from the agenda and the only thing that will be discussed is increasing defence spending to 5% of GDP,

NATO leaders are gathering in The Hague on June 24–25 with a bold 5 percent defense spending target on the table -- and lingering questions over US President Donald Trump’s attendance and Ukraine’s place on the agenda.