Prime Minister Robert Golob announced during the first official visit of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to Slovenia that Ljubljana had joined the program to purchase American weapons for Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also thanked Slovenia for this. Golob did not reveal how much the country would allocate for weapons for Ukraine, because the documentation is marked internal. However, he revealed that it would be air defense - specifically surface-to-air missiles, which are supposed to protect civilian, especially energy infrastructure. The constant attacks on civilian and energy infrastructure do not have military goals, but only exhaust the civilian population, Golob assessed.

The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Canada have already joined this program, which replaced US arms supplies to Ukraine (the PURL program). As explained by NATO Secretary General Rutte, approximately two billion euros have already flowed through it. But now US President Donald Trump is also considering the possibility of supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, which Russia is warning against.

Rutte praised Slovenia as a reliable partner in the alliance since its accession. He particularly highlighted the presence of Slovenian soldiers in Kosovo, Iraq, Latvia and Slovakia, and reminded that just as Slovenia cares for the alliance, it does the same for Slovenia, with Hungarian and Italian aircraft protecting Slovenian airspace, and allied soldiers also coming to the rescue after the floods a little over two years ago.

During their bilateral talks, Golob and Rutte also touched on the peace achieved in Gaza, which they both hope will become an incentive for the search for peace in Europe, where Ukraine is facing Russian aggression.