Zelenskyyalso warned thateven the proposed, radically increased,Natospending target of 5% of GDP might be too low.
He told Sky News:
“In my view,this is slow because we believe that starting from 2030 Putin can have significantly greater capabilities.
Today, Ukraine is holding him up. He has no time to drill the army, and they are all getting annihilated and wiped out at the battlefield.”
Zelenskyy also said he believedRussia’s Putin could try to attack a Nato member within the next five years.
The full interview will be broadcast later this morning, and I will monitor it for more news lines.
Kicking off theNato Public Forum, Dutch justice and security ministerDavid van Wellsays the organisers looked at some 40 scenarios that could disrupt the summit, including state actors, terrorists, activists, and cyber-attacks.
I think you’re probably in one of the safest spaces in the world right now.
But when he gets asked about major train disruptions on lines between Utrecht and Amsterdam, with no trains running to and from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, and disruptions on lines to The Hague due to a power failure, he admits:
“Thatcould be sabotage, that’s one of the things that we’re looking into.And then the question is, well, who was behind it?
That can be activist group, it can be state actor led, it can be any kind.
The main thing we’re trying to do now is make sure that those cables get repairedand that we get the traffic flowing, because in combination with the summit where we close down highways and people rely on public transport a lot more.”
Dutch media outletNRCsaidthere was “considerable damage” to around thirty power cables, with the cause of the fire currently unknown.
Zelenskyyalso warned thateven the proposed, radically increased,Natospending target of 5% of GDP might be too low.
He told Sky News:
“In my view,this is slow because we believe that starting from 2030 Putin can have significantly greater capabilities.
Today, Ukraine is holding him up. He has no time to drill the army, and they are all getting annihilated and wiped out at the battlefield.”
Zelenskyy also said he believedRussia’s Putin could try to attack a Nato member within the next five years.
The full interview will be broadcast later this morning, and I will monitor it for more news lines.
Speaking with Sky News before theNatosummit begins, Ukrainian presidentVolodymyr Zelenskyyurged allies to step up their sanctions to cover more producers of components used for missile strikes on Ukraine.
Components for their missiles – and missiles are the most painful strikes – are coming in from other countries, including the UK, not too much, but including the UK.
He said “it’s … mostly China, Taiwan, but alsoEurope, also Germany, also eastern Europe.”
“There are lists of these companies and lists of these components, we are monitoring this.
It is vitally important for us, and we are handing this list over to our partners and asking them to apply sanctions. Otherwise the Russians will have [more] missiles.”
After averylong buildup,it’s time for the main event to finally begin.The 2025Natosummit in The Hague starts today.
It’svery much a slow startwith many leaders, including US presidentDonald Trump, only expected to arrive in late afternoon to take part in an official dinner starting at 7pm local time.
But even before then,we should get some early indications as to key positions and issues to be discussed at the summitas a number of side events get under way this morning.
We will hear from Nato secretary generalMark Rutte, European Commission presidentUrsula von der Leyen,and a long list of national ministers and senior officials taking part inthe Nato Public Forumandthe Nato Summit Defence Industry Forum.
And even before leaving for The Hague, German chancellorFriedrich Merzwill address the Bundestag, presentinghis government’s plans to ramp up defence spendingas part of the new Nato 5% GDP target.
It should be a lively day. Stay with us for all the latest updates.
It’sTuesday, 24 June 2025, it’sJakub Krupahere, and this isEurope Live.
Good morning.