 In a joint statement delivered by the outgoing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, leaders of the military alliance have pledged a minimum of $40 billion of military aid to Kiev over the coming year. Mr Stoltenberg outlined further NATO measures to support Ukraine with training and logistics, but he stressed that these would not make the organisation a party to the conflict. Mr Stoltenberg also confirmed that NATO would support what it calls Ukraine's irreversible path to membership.