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.

Russia’s bombardment of Ukrainian people and infrastructure shaped Zelenskyy’s goals at the summit, where the main focus was on air defence.

In the final communiqué of the last NATO summit - unlike last year's - Ukraine was mentioned only once. But instead of a lot of buzzwords, the alliance gave the green light to many joint Ukrainian-European defense projects, writes err.ee.