The chief of the US-led NATO military alliance says Ukraine has been provided with 1,550 armored vehicles and 230 tanks.

Finland is set to formally become a member of the NATO military alliance on Tuesday in a historic shift that will end its years of “military non-alignment" and double the US-led alliance's land border with Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on its Western allies to speed up the pace of supplying weapons to his country, as Russia continues to gain fresh ground along Ukraine's eastern frontlines.

NATO and the EU have vowed to ramp up cooperation to back Ukraine, which is fighting a war with Russia.

The Biden administration is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia, the Washington Post reports.

NATO says it has no plans to deploy troops and infrastructure to Sweden and Finland once the two Nordic countries become a member of the Western military alliance, as the process to ratify Sweden and Finland as the newest members of the 30-member bloc has been formally launched.

Amid growing friction, China has called on the NATO military alliance to avoid attempts to start a new Cold War, describing its expansion to the Asian-Pacific region as dangerous.