NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called on alliance members and other Western partners to provide more support for Ukraine as cold weather looms. Speaking after a meeting with Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs at the Adazi military base on Thursday,

General Mark Rutte called on Western allies to provide further support to Ukraine “to change the trajectory of the conflict.”

As secretary-general, Rutte does not have the authority to "personally expel" a country from the alliance. While he leads the alliance, according to NATO's website, "authority for taking decisions is invested only in the member governments themselves."

NATO chief Mark Rutte on Tuesday called on Western countries to ramp up support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion, saying Kyiv required more than just being kept "in the fight". "We must do more than just keep Ukraine in the fight," Rutte ...

I am absolutely convinced that if the Russians did not have nuclear weapons, we would be in Ukraine and driving them out. That is what we would do. But they do have nuclear weapons. So, this is different from the situation in Afghanistan,

NATO countries need to increase their support for Ukraine in the war with Russia. Simply helping the Ukrainian military hold its ground is not enough, stated NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, according to Reuters.