EU still to decide form of security assurances to Ukraine, Rutte says

The European Union still needs to decide the shape and form of the security assurances it wishes to give Ukraine, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Thursday, adding they would be additional to current military support. "This European track would be additional.

The European Union still needs to decide the shape and form of the security assurances it wishes to give Ukraine, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Thursday, adding they would be additional to current military support.

"This European track would be additional. We will have to discuss how far it goes, and if it would be lethal or non-lethal support. And we have to take into account that several EU countries are not a member of NATO," Rutte said as he arrived for a meeting with EU leaders in Brussels.