NATO allies vow major new purchases of US arms for Ukraine

NATO countries pledged Wednesday to buy hundreds of millions more dollars of US arms for Ukraine, as Russian President Vladimir Putin was told to end his "bluster" and get serious on peace talks.

Foreign ministers from the 32-nation alliance gathered in Brussels to discuss Washington's push to end the fighting -- but US top diplomat Marco Rubio was skipping the meeting.

The gathering comes after US envoys appeared to fail to make a major breakthrough on efforts to stop the war in five hours of talks with Putin in Moscow.

"The peace talks are ongoing, that's good, but at the same time, we have to make sure that whilst they take place -- and we are not sure when they will end -- that Ukraine is in the strongest possible position

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