The North Atlantic Alliance has released the schedule for the ministerial meeting to be held on 15 October at NATO Headquarters. On the same day, sessions of the NATO-Ukraine Council and the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also known as the Ramstein Format) are also planned.

Source: NATO press service, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Ministers will begin arriving at headquarters and giving comments to the press from 08:00. A joint statement by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – referred to in the schedule as "Secretary of War", although the Pentagon has not been officially renamed – is planned for 08:30.

The meeting of defence ministers will start at 09:00.

The informal NATO-Ukraine Council session will begin at 12:30, without media comments. A briefing by Rutte is planned for 14:15.

The meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group is scheduled for 15:00. It will open with public remarks from the defence ministers of the United Kingdom and Germany, as well as from Ukrainian Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal.

Afterwards, at 17:00, a joint briefing by Rutte and Shmyhal will take place, followed by a press conference at 17:40.

Background:

• Earlier on 13 October, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy outlined Ukraine's priorities for the upcoming Ramstein meeting.
• The previous Ramstein meeting was held on 9 September in London.
• An extraordinary meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council was convened at Ukraine's request on 1 September in response to large-scale Russian attacks.

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