Defence spend to 5% of GDP, Ukraine, Russia: The key takeaways from the NATO summit

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Defence spend to 5% of GDP, Ukraine, Russia: The key takeaways from the NATO summit  The summit ended with a commitment to spend 5% of GDP on defence - more than double the current target of 2%.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/06/25/defence-spend-to-5-of-gdp-ukraine-russia-the-key-takeaways-from-the-nato-summit  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00NATO leaders on Wednesday confirmed their commitment to more than double defense spending by 2035,

00:07banding words like Crucial, Momentos and Quantum Leap.

00:11Members said that they were united against profound security challenges,

00:16singling out the long-term threat posed by Russia and terrorism.

00:21The resolutions came even as U.S. President Donald Trump faced questions at the summit

00:26about the Ukraine wars, something he described as being hard for him to solve.

00:32Because it's more difficult than people would have any idea, Vladimir Putin has been more difficult.

00:40Frankly, I had some problems with Zelensky, you may have read about him, and it's been more difficult than other wars.

00:46By the end of the summit, allies in a joint statement committed to spending 3.5% of GDP

00:52on core defense spending to buy military hardware and maintain troops.

00:58However, their statements did not include a condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as it had a year ago.

01:06Trump, who had always castigated European allies for not spending enough on their own defense,

01:11held the decision taken at the summit in The Hague.

01:14The U.S. President described it as a big win for Europe and Western civilization.

01:22The U.S. President prisoner

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