Rift emerges on final day of NATO summit over Ukraine's future membership
and other leaders will meet with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the first meeting of the permanent council where the war-torn country will be able to call crisis talks and sit as equals.
Mr Zelenskyy is attending the summit's final day in Vilnius but he has been sharply critical in recent days of what he described as NATO's"absurd" reluctance to set a timeline for his country's acceptance into the alliance.Participants attend a meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Asia Pacific Partners during the NATO summit
The Ukrainian president said in a speech on Tuesday that he had faith in NATO, but that he would"like this faith to become confidence, confidence in the decisions that we deserve, all of us, every soldier, every citizen, every mother, every child".A major problem for NATO is defining the end of the Ukraine war, at which point the country could join.
NATO officials have declined to identify at what stage this could happen, suggesting it could range from a negotiated ceasefire or Ukraine reclaiming all occupied territory. This issue essentially gives Mr Putin veto power over Ukraine's NATO membership by continuing the conflict.
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