NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte stated the alliance's focus is to ensure Ukraine is prepared for any future peace negotiations with Russia. His remarks came during a meeting in Brussels with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders. Zelenskyy is set to attend an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday.
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00:00And very much high on the agenda is to make sure that the president, his team, Ukraine
00:13are in the best possible position one day, when they decide so, to start the peace talks.
00:20And that means that we have to do everything now to make sure that when it comes to air
00:24defense, when it comes to other weapons systems, that we make sure that we provide whatever
00:31we can.
00:32I believe what we should focus on now is making sure that Ukraine gets to this position of
00:38strength and that discussing all of this, which comes after that moment starts, when
00:46Zelensky and Putin and others would sit at the table, is for them.
00:51And if we now start to discuss amongst ourselves what a peace deal could look like, we make
00:56it so easy for the Russians.
00:58I think we would be very wise to put some lid on this and focus on the business at hand.
01:04And the business at hand is to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs to prevent Putin
01:10from winning and for Ukraine to prevail.
01:14That is our ambition.
01:15That's what we need to achieve, because our values are at stake, but also it has a direct
01:20connection to our own security and safety going forward.