By Michael Birnbaum @ Chicago Tribune republishing Washington Post story, Feb. 6

President Donald Trump has agreed to meet the leaders of NATO at a summit in late May, the alliance said Monday -- an apparent first step in his efforts to push it to focus more on counterterrorism and for members to spend more on their militaries. The announcement came amid doubts about Trump's commitment to NATO, an alliance he called "obsolete" days before his inauguration. [....] Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had a phone conversation Sunday evening "where they reconfirmed the importance of the alliance in troubled times," NATO said in a statement. [....]

and despite Trump's comment  "you think our country is so innocent?" about Putin on Fox News, 

[....] NATO said Monday that the conversation had included a discussion of "the uptick in violence in eastern Ukraine, and prospects for a peaceful settlement."

The White House said only that the two leaders "discussed the potential for a peaceful resolution of the conflict along the Ukrainian border." [....]