For Mins Meeting To End w/Ukraine Council; Sweden Accession 'Within Weeks'

The two-day NATO Foreign Ministers' meeting concludes in Brussels today with the Ukraine-NATO Council meeting, with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in attendance. At the meeting, Kuleba has come out strongly, claiming that the EU has delivered about 300k of the 1mn shells it promised to Ukraine. There remains significant concern in Kyiv that Western attention has been diverted to the Israel-Hamas war, and that European nations and the US are becoming more disinclined to provide masses of military and financial support as the war against Russia's invasion drags on.

• NATO Sec-Gen Jens Stoltenberg to deliver the closing press conference at 1130CET (0530ET, 1030GMT). Livestream here.
• The meeting comes as Sweden's Foreign Minister claims that his Turkish counterpart has said that the Turkish Grand National Assembly will ratify Sweden's accession 'within weeks'. Swedish Foreign Min Tobias Billstrom: "The Turkish foreign minister (Hakan Fidan) didn't present a date but said 'within weeks'. He expected the ratification of Sweden's NATO protocol to be made within weeks. That was what he told me yesterday,"
• Reuters reports comments from an unnamed US State Dep't official intimating something similar: "I will say the summary of the meeting was it will be done before the end of the year,"
• Billstrom also stated that his Hungarian counterpart reaffirmed Budapest's stance that it will not be the last to ratify Sweden's accession, implying that Turkish approval will mean swift Hungarian approval.