In a brief statement, NATO said Trump and its secretary general, Mark Rutte, met on Friday in Palm Beach, Florida.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met President-elect Donald Trump in Florida as Europe waits apprehensively to see how the next administration will approach the war in Ukraine.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, a spokesperson for the transatlantic military alliance said on Saturday.

Nato and Kyiv will hold emergency talks on Tuesday over Russia’s use of an experimental, hypersonic ballistic missile. The Kremlin fired the new intermediate-range ballistic missile at a central Ukrainian city on Thursday in response to Kyiv’s use of American and British missiles capable of striking deeper into Russia.

In a stark warning to the West, President Putin said the attack with the intermediate-range Oreshnik missile was in retaliation for Kyiv’s use of U.S. and British longer-range missiles.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump chose lawyer Matthew Whitaker on Wednesday to be U.S. ambassador to NATO, selecting a loyalist with little foreign policy experience for what may be one of the highest-profile ambassadorships during Trump's second administration.

President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday named former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker as his pick for the next ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a key alliance that Trump derided for years.

The choice of Whitaker as the nation's representative to NATO is an unusual one, given his background is in law enforcement and not in foreign policy.